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Hepatitis C is an enlargement or inflammation of the liver. About four million people are diagnosed with it in the United States. The majority of the people who have it are baby boomers. These people were born 1946 to 1964; about 75 percent of people who have Hepatitis C are baby boomers. The new generation of people who have Hepatitis C are young people who share needles, and other dangerous acts, that caused the transportation of blood from multiple people. As will be described in greater detail injected drugs are the most common way of people get Hepatitis C. The largest harm of Hepatitis C is how there are not any symptoms for it. That is why screening can really save you from Hepatitis C. Doctors have now recently found a pill that can cure Chronic Hepatitis C, the price is very expensive, but can be a tremendous help. Because of the treatments that are being found, doctors project Hepatitis C to be a rare disease in the United States by 2036. <ref name= Hepatitis/>

Hepatitis C often have minor symptoms when first infected; this is why some refer to the infection as "silent". About half of the people that half Hepatitis C do not know they have it because of the few symptoms. The first step of Hep C is called the acute phase. This phase has symptoms that appear one to three months after first being infected by the [[disease]]. Some of those symptoms include dark colored urine, felling tired, muscle and joint pain, nausea and many more. <ref name= clinic/> Some people infected by Hepatitis C have it cleared from their body after the acute phase People go through a process known as the spontaneous viral clearance. Studies have shown wide variety between people cleared and uncleared. Some statistics show around fourteen to fifty percent of the infected have been cleared by spontaneous viral clearance. Having Long term Hepatitis C or better known as Chronic Hepatitis C is the result of people not know they are infected for many years. When the liver is damaged from years of the infection many symptoms starts showing up, which is why screening for Hepatitis C is very important. Some signs include bleeding easily, poor appetite, swelling of the leg, Jaundice and many more. [[Jaundice]] is arguably the most common symptom of Hepatitis C, because it occurs both in acute phase and chronic phase. [[Jaundice]] is a condition that causes yellow eyes and skin, which is seen on the image. Dangerous results of Chronic Hepatitis C can lead to liver cancer. <ref name= clinic> Mayo [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hepatitis-c/symptoms-causes/syc-20354278 Hepatitis C] ''Mayo Clinic''. no author. Mayo Clinic. March 6, 2018.(Date of Publication.)</ref>