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  • Hotline On Hepatitis C Opens In Armenia

    HOTLINE ON HEPATITIS C OPENS IN ARMENIA

    ARKA
    May 19, 2008

    YEREVAN, May 19. /ARKA/. The Swiss Roche Company in cooperation
    with the Arabkir Medical Centre has opened a hotline on hepatitis C,
    Hoffmann La Roche Armenia office director Davit Arakelyan said.

    The hotline telephone number is 54-72-54. The service offers free
    consultation and examination for revelation of both antibodies and
    a hepatitis C virus, said Marine Hovsepyan, Head of the Laboratory
    Service of the Institute of Children's and Teenagers' Health of the
    Arabkir Medical Centre.

    Hepatitis C is a blood-transmitted disease and in 5% cases it is
    transmitted sexually. The risk group includes drug addicts, blood
    recipients and medical workers. To some extent, there is a risk of
    infection at dentist's and beauty salons.

    At the initial stage of the disease people feel quite healthy and the
    disease is revealed at a more complicated stage of cirrhosis and liver
    cancer. Only 10%-15% people suffering from hepatitis C get over the
    disease by themselves. Due to antivirus therapy hepatitis C stopped
    to be considered incurable as early as eight years ago.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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