Recently, Anhui Eddyang County and Henan Yongcheng County, the hepatitis C epidemic gathered infection, the number of people screened positive for hepatitis C antibodies in the two places has been close to 200 people, raising concerns about hepatitis C. In the hepatitis family, hepatitis A and hepatitis B have long been “household names”, while hepatitis C is “unrecognized”, and is easily overlooked in the treatment process, while the current rate of missed diagnosis of hepatitis C in China is as high as 90%, and most patients have no obvious symptoms, coupled with the lack of public awareness of hepatitis C. This, coupled with the lack of public awareness of hepatitis C, has led to a high prevalence of hepatitis C year by year and an increasingly serious risk. Hepatitis C is caused by the hepatitis C virus, which is as dangerous to human health as hepatitis B. However, one major difference from hepatitis B is that hepatitis C is a very insidious disease, and some patients who are infected with the hepatitis C virus fail to screen for it in time and delay treatment, and may not be detected until 20 years later. The hepatitis C virus is so insidious that less than 20 percent of people with hepatitis C have symptoms, but its damage to the liver is slow and lasting. Once it develops, the patient is often already very sick and may have cirrhosis once it comes on. Because hepatitis C is so difficult to detect, it is easy to let it continue to progress and eventually turn into end-stage liver disease and lose the opportunity for treatment. Some data show that the proportion of people infected with hepatitis C virus who develop cirrhosis after 20 years is 10-30%, and 5-10% develop liver cancer. Currently, no effective vaccine has been successfully developed because the mutation rate of hepatitis C virus is very high. In the future, as the prevalence of hepatitis B vaccine has been decreasing, the danger of hepatitis C virus will become more and more prominent. The main routes of transmission of hepatitis C are blood and sexual transmission. The amount of hepatitis C virus in blood is so high that a very small amount of blood contact can cause infection with the virus. “Although the transmission routes are the same for both, hepatitis B will eventually become a low prevalence disease as the hepatitis B vaccine becomes more widespread. Hepatitis C, on the other hand, will increase as the economy becomes more developed and the number of people infected with the hepatitis C virus through the blood route (including intravenous drug use) and the sexual transmission route will continue to increase.” As the chart can show, the number of hepatitis C cases has increased by as much as eight times in a nine-year period. Are you in a high-risk group? Hepatitis C is both insidious and there is no effective vaccine that can prevent the hepatitis C virus, so how can we know if we have been infected by the hepatitis C virus? The only way to find out early if you are infected with the hepatitis C virus is through your own knowledge and proactive screening at the hospital. If you have experienced any of the following, you are already at high risk for hepatitis C virus infection and early screening is recommended Plasma collectors, especially those who sold plasma in the 1990s? Drug addicts; hemodialysis patients; people who share syringes for injecting stimulants (Anagar); blood recipients; people who have had unclean sex, multiple sexual partners; people who have been exposed to hepatitis C positive blood at needle pricks or broken mucous membranes; people who have had invasive consultations (gastroscopy, endoscopy); people who have had plastic surgery, tattoos, eyebrow tattoos, earring piercings, open double eyelids, etc. Those who have had acupuncture treatment, dental operation (tooth extraction), etc. without strict sterilization? If you have a spouse or sexual partner with hepatitis C, as long as 1 ml of blood, hepatitis C is “present” such as regular treatment, the cure rate of 70%-80%.