{"id":38387,"date":"2024-01-06T07:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/uncategorized\/what-are-the-causes-of-hepatitis-c\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T07:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:48:51","slug":"what-are-the-causes-of-hepatitis-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/general-medicine\/what-are-the-causes-of-hepatitis-c\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the causes of hepatitis C?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the <strong>HCV virus<\/strong>. The route of transmission is through <strong>direct contact with the blood<\/strong> of someone already infected with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The most common cause of transmission is the promiscuous use of infected needles and syringes that, correctly, would be disposable. Other less common causes of transmission are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sharing razors, toothbrushes or nail scissors with infected people;<\/li>\n<li>accidental contact with infected blood, a situation that mostly affects health care workers;<\/li>\n<li>The performance of tattoos and piercings with non-sterile materials;<\/li>\n<li>Practice unprotected anal sex with infected partners;<\/li>\n<li>engaging in sexual activity among people with high promiscuity (multiple partners): this increases the risk of contracting various types of STDs, mucosal lesions of which can be a risk factor for hepatitis C transmission. In fact, within stable monogamous couples, there is no indication for condom use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionefegato.it\/epatite-c\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the HCV virus. The route of transmission is through direct contact with &#8230; <a title=\"What are the causes of hepatitis C?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/general-medicine\/what-are-the-causes-of-hepatitis-c\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What are the causes of hepatitis C?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8782,"featured_media":23570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[1741],"tags":[1962,1966],"corpo":[1760],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-38387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-medicine","tag-hepatitis-c","tag-transmission","corpo-digestive-system","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38387"},{"taxonomy":"corpo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo?post=38387"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=38387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}