Faithful to One Pair Guaranteed Avoid You from Hepatitis C

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Hepatitis C is usually spread through contact with blood that virus infected, the use of the same needle repeatedly and sexual relations are conducted not with pair alias free sex. That's why a new study reveals if faithful with one sexual partner can avoid a person from hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Although transmission of hepatitis C virus from an infected partner during sexual intercourse calculated very rarely happens but the experts estimate hepatitis C suffered by 4 million Americans, mostly active doing sexual relations.

"In general, the risk of transmission of hepatitis C virus from sexual couples is very low. In other words, exposure to blood that infected during sexual contact through bodily fluids such as vaginal secretions, sperm or saliva just carries the risk of infection which minimal," explained research team leader Dr. . Norah Terrault from the University of California, San Francisco.

"Even so, the lack of quantitative data related to the risk of the spread of hepatitis C virus with sexual activity is still limited to the results of doctor counseling with her patients associated safe sex practices," he added.

To ensure the presence of the risk of spread of hepatitis C virus from infected individuals to their sexual partners, researchers recruited 500 people who diagnosed positive anti-HCV and HIV negative her partner following. Each pair surveyed about risk factors for HCV infection, their sexual practices and habits of the couple to use the personal items of the same.

In addition, the researchers analyzed participants' blood samples in order that can determine presence or absence of active virus in their blood and then compare them with HCV strains contained on couples who indeed are suffering from hepatitis C.

As a result, most of the participants which infected with HCV and participate in this study are white skin non-Hispanic with an average age of 49 years. Most of the infected partner had been doing sexually active within a period which variety, starting from two years up to 52 years.

However, the prevalence of partner participants for affected by hepatitis C in this study is just 4 percent. Only nine couples who are known to have the same virus strain and the three couples who show high contagion of HCV between pairs.

This study has been published in the journal Hepatology.

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