{"id":8538,"date":"2023-07-19T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/?page_id=8538"},"modified":"2023-07-19T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:49:05","slug":"hepatitis-c-hep-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/hepatitis-c-hep-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis C (Hep C)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hep C is primarily transmitted by injection drug use or birth to an HCV-infected mother.<\/li><li>Less common transmission:<ul><li>Sex with an HCV-infected person (an inefficient means of transmission, although HIV-infected men who have sex with men [MSM] have increased risk of sexual transmission).<\/li><li>Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes.<\/li><li>Unregulated tattooing.<\/li><li>Receipt of donated blood, blood products, and organs (rare in the United States since blood screening became available in 1992).<\/li><li>Needlestick injuries in health-care settings.<\/li><li>For some people, hepatitis C is a short-term illness, but for more than half of people who become infected with the hepatitis C virus, it becomes a long-term, chronic infection.<\/li><li>There is no vaccine for hepatitis C. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hep C is primarily transmitted by injection drug use or birth to an HCV-infected mother. Less common transmission: Sex with an HCV-infected person (an inefficient means of transmission, although HIV-infected men who have sex with men [MSM] have increased risk of sexual transmission). Sharing personal items contaminated with infectious blood, such as razors or toothbrushes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8538\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}