What Is Hepatitis C?

What Is Hepatitis C? (0:26)

Most people have heard of hepatitis C, but have little understanding of what it is or how it's transmitted. HealthMaker Robert Brown, MD, MPH gives an overview of the disease in this video.

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Hepatitis C is a virus, a blood born virus and it affects the liver. So what it does is when you are exposed to the blood of an infected individual, virus finds its way into the liver, and in the liver cells makes copies of itself that allows it to live, replicate, and then go back into the blood stream where it can affect other people.

Robert Brown, MD

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