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Relationship among Transfusion-Related Hepatitis C, Alcohol Abuse, and Cirrhosis
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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes inflammation of the liver, a condition known as hepatitis. Before the blood supply in the United States was routinely tested, people commonly became infected by receiving blood transfusions that contained HCV. (Giving blood does not …
