The current treatment is grueling and not always successful. It involves three injections a week of the drug interferon. Some patients also receive an oral medication called ribavirin. This can cause extreme fatigue, pain, loss of appetite, irritability, depression and severe flu-like symptoms, the article says. Hepatitis C is often transmitted by sharing needles.
Some people get it through blood transfusions.
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