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When Do People Realize They Have Hepatitis C?

When Do People Realize They Have Hepatitis C? (0:09)

Plenty of people with hepatitis C have no idea that they carry the virus. HealthMaker Lennox Jeffers, MD reveals shocking information in this video about the average time from contraction to diagnosis.

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Both individuals would not know that they have the virus until 25, 30 years later. It's a slow moving virus.

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About Lennox Jeffers, MD

Lennox Jeffers, MD, is the chief of Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center hepatology section. His clinical focus includes viral hepatitis, liver cancer and diagnostic laparoscopy treatment for hepatitis B and C.

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