Hello everyone!
I am hepatitis C virus, which belongs to the Flaviviridae family of RNA viruses.
Remembering "The Shining Days"
Speaking of the history of our clan, it is a history of battles with humans. Years later, when faced with the "genocide" crisis, I will still think of those "shining days".
In fact, long before humans discovered our clan in 1989, the clan people had been infiltrating human livers silently for decades. It was a quiet time, and we were catching up with the Baby boom (1945-1964) era in America.
Like the good brother hepatitis B virus, the main means of the ancestors to conquer the city and conquer the land is to use blood transfusion, contaminated medical equipment, poisonous drugs to mix, successfully enter the liver with the blood, reach the destination, win a seat, and thrive here. Therefore, we are particularly partial to addicts, mothers and babies, blood transfusions, etc. When humans are not aware of it at all, clansmen usually spend at least ten years before being discovered.
When the first ancestors were discovered by humans, they were already dead. But in such a situation, human beings still can't recognize the true face of our clan, only know that we are "neither A nor B". Until that nasty day in 1989, when Yankee Michael Houghton and his colleagues cut open our bodies and uncovered our "old bottom": our genetic sequence was identified and cloned The same individuals and forcibly gave us names - Hepatitis C and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV).
Today is still the "Silver Age"
We, who have put on the "invisibility cloak", are madly attacking the city and conquering the land. Even if humans have a strong immune system, there is still a 50% chance of developing chronic hepatitis after we invade. Compared with the hepatitis B brothers, our family has achieved a brilliant record. We have conquered 3.5 million people in America so far. After 2009, a large number of young people aged 20-30 living in non-urban areas (mostly drug addicts, among them pregnant women) were captured by our tribe one by one. Corrupted human beings, it is exactly what is in our hearts!
(Published online by NEJM, the number of newly diagnosed hepatitis B and C in the United States from 2005 to 2016)
As long as human beings are willing to take drugs, transfuse blood, inject drugs intravenously, and be infected with HIV or HBV, they will inevitably have the opportunity to be invaded by our tribe. Once they become infected, if they don't get treatment, they are very likely to spread us to others. If they are of reproductive age, we can also invade their offspring.
But how can there be an unbeaten battle in the world! No matter how strong our clan is, after humans find out our details, they will soon start to "encircle and block" us:
1. Comprehensively conduct blood product screening, and destroy all our "undercover agents".
2. Since 2014, the human government has introduced policies to greatly reduce the cost of drugs and medical insurance against us, and minimize barriers to treatment.
3. Through the implementation of simplified "hepatitis C virus detection", mankind hopes to detect us earlier and prevent the spread of our family and related diseases.
4. Continue to strengthen our combat policy - "Hepatitis C Treatment Guidelines".
5. Human beings have also vigorously developed the "hepatitis C virus vaccine", hoping to prevent the invasion of our family through widespread inoculation of the population like the hepatitis B virus vaccine against my brother.
Humans have developed a lot of "weapons of mass destruction" against our family - small molecule compounds (direct antiviral drugs, DAAs, such as Ji2dai, Ji3dai, Ji4dai, EU combination, etc.), making it difficult for us to replicate .
Today, although the "Golden Age" belonging to our family is no longer, as long as human beings do not really take precautions, it will still be our "Silver Age"!
Countless human beings have not realized that they have been violated by us, especially in developing countries where we have "great record", such as China, where there are more than 10 million hepatitis C patients.
Even so, the situation is not optimistic, and I am full of worries about the future.
In recent years, human ambitions have grown: the World Health Organization (WHO) urges countries around the world to establish national hepatitis prevention and control systems, and ultimately eliminate viral hepatitis. By 2030, reduce new cases of chronic hepatitis B and C by 90%, reduce hepatitis B and C mortality by 65%, and cover 80% of patients with chronic hepatitis B and C treatment.
Maybe one day, the end of my family will come, do you know that there will be reincarnation at that time?
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References:
NEJM Hepatitis C in Injection-Drug Users — A Hidden Danger of the Opioid Epidemic
T. Jake Liang, M.D., and John W. Ward, M.D.