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 Hepatitis C's March on DC
To all people with hepatitis C, their family and friends;
My name is Tricia and I am the National Co Coordinator of the Hepatitis C Movement for Awareness.
We would like to furnish details of the March we are planing November 11, 2001. Our theme is "Hepatitis C's March on DC."
We plan on starting the rally at 9:00 am that morning. We will walk the mall from the Capital to the Lincoln Memorial. We have several guest speakers including doctors, and elected officials that will present testimony to the devastation of the number one epidemic in the world, Hepatitis C (HCV).
There are several big names that will be speaking and providing entertainment to the five million people we hope will attend. That number is high but it does reflect the current infection rate and is our target group to participate in this Awareness March.
One of our main goals is to clear up the confusion about this disease and let everyone know how fast HCV is spreading. HCV has become know as "the druggie disease" and this has hampered all of us from receiving support and the education needed to stop the spread of the virus. These attitudes have misled the public into thinking they are safe as long as they don't do drugs.
The truth is over 40% of the people infected have no clue how they contracted HCV. Sporadic transmission, when the source of infection is unknown, occurs in about 10 percent of acute hepatitis C cases and in 30 percent of chronic hepatitis C cases. These cases are also referred to as community-acquired infections.
These infections may have come from exposure to the virus from cuts, wounds, medical injections or procedures, Shared toothbrushes razors and manicure sets to list only a few. These methods of transmission are a real threat to everyone. Each year new ways of transmitting this disease are discovered.
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