an introduction
Viruses spread widely among people and cause them different types of diseases, including what is simple and can be treated, including what is dangerous and difficult treatment may be impossible in some species, and viruses are a single virus is a microorganisms that can reproduce and grow only when they are inside the cells of an object The most common types of viruses are flu virus, corona virus, HIV virus, and virus.
C virus is one of the viruses that affect the liver and cause inflammation and damage, which is the main cause of viral hepatitis C, a contagious disease, which was studied in the seventies of the last century to be confirmed in 1989.
The disease has several complications, including: cirrhosis of the liver, varicose veins, bleeding stomach, and one of the most serious complications is liver cancer.
Symptoms of C disease
People with this disease have the following symptoms and signs:
Fever, lack of appetite, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, pain in the muscles and joints, abdominal pain, dark urine, and weight loss.
Methods of transmission of C virus
Each virus has a certain way of moving from one person to another, as is the case with C virus, it travels among people in the following ways:
- Blood transfusions or components such as plasma, platelets and red and white blood cells, from a person infected with the virus.
- The use of instruments contaminated with the blood of an infected person, such as surgical instruments, syringes, dental instruments, shaving tools, tools used in purity, and Chinese needles.
- The use of tattoo tools on the body, cupping tools, and ear piercing tools for the erection of the throat that are contaminated with the blood of an infected person.
- Use toothbrush, beauty tools, and nail scissors for an infected person.
- Multiple sexual relations that are outside marriage.
- Participate in medical devices used by a person who has already been infected, such as a dialysis machine and a blood washing machine.
- Sometimes the virus moves from the pregnant mother to the fetus.
- Bleeding from an injured person causes the transmission of the virus.
- The virus is also transmitted by the saliva of the infected person.
It is important to note that a person does not become contagious once the virus has passed on to him. Until a person becomes contagious, the virus must be incubated for two weeks.
Methods in which C virus is not transmitted
The virus can not be transmitted in the following ways:
- Kissing, shaking hands and embracing.
- Share infected people with their food and utensils used in food.
- Sneezing and coughing do not transmit disease.
- Breast feeding.
- All relationships between people who do not have blood exposure can not transmit the disease.