Sexual Transmission

It is rare for hepatitis C to be passed between monogamous sexual partners. In a survey of people with hepatitis C who had spouses or monogamous partners, less than 5% of them had partners who also had hepatitis C, and that includes those partners who themselves had behaviors that put them at risk for hepatitis C such as intravenous drug use. Cases that involve the spreading of hepatitis C between stable, monogamous sex partners is less than 1% per year. Doctors do not recommend that people in stable relationships change their sex practices.

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The global fad for tattoos, particularly among young people, is growing -- and along with it the risk of acquiring hepatitis C, according to a multinational study.A systematic review of 124 published studies from 30 countries found
that people with tattoos were almost three times as likely to have
hepatitis C as those without tattoos, according to Dr. Jane Buxton of
the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver and
colleagues.

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