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Did you know that the most common chronic bloodborne viral infection in the United States is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV)? While a vaccine has been developed to help prevent infection with HBV, the virus responsible for causing hepatitis B infections, there is no vaccination available to prevent infections from hepatitis C. |
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Hepatitis C Investigation in a Las Vegas, Nevada Endoscopy,” Page last reviewed and modified June 20, 2008, 02/05/09.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infections Attributed to Unsafe Infection Practices at an Endoscopy Clinic --- Nevada, 2007,” MMWR, Vol. 57. No. 19, pp. 513-517, May 16, 2008, 02/05/09.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “CDC Study: Failures to Follow Infection Practices Have Placed More than 60,000 Patients at Risk for Hepatitis B and C,” Press Release, January 6, 2009, 02/05/09.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Healthcare Settings and Viral Hepatitis,” Page last reviewed and modified October 1, 2008, 02/05/09.
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