Latin America: 7-9 million cases of hepatitis C virus, experts recommend more testing

lainformacion.com reported the Latin American countries, where there are between seven and nine million infected with the hepatitis C virus, should expand the routine tests to detect it until severe symptoms make obvious your presence, noted experts. the Latin American countries, where there are between seven and nine million infected with the hepatitis C virus, should expand the routine tests to detect it until severe symptoms make their presence obvious, stressed experts.

“It may take up to 30 years (after infection) until symptoms appear, which almost 80 percent of those infected do not know that have the virus until they have a serious disease,” said José Luis Cañadas in 23 Congress of the Association Latin American studies of liver (ALEH). Read Article