I never heard of Mike & Molly.... did you yell at the screen and tell them they're idiots?

if i had a nickel for every error i have caught on Dr, House show...they just don't care. i think they script it as they like it. It's just fiction anyhow...and Mike & Molly is comedic fiction.

But, still, you'll have some yokel running around saying: You can get Hep C from dirty drinking water. i saw it on TV!

This is a quite interesting release from 1988- NonA-NonB hepititis is what they called HEP C before it got a letter of its own.


From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2894501
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1988 Mar 12;
Waterborne non-A, non-B hepatitis.


Ramalingaswami V, Purcell RH.
Source: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
"Abstract

Waterborne non-A, non-B hepatitis (NANB) is responsible for outbreaks of hepatitis with a predilection for young adults. The disease is usually mild, except in pregnant women, who have a high case-fatality rate from fulminant hepatic failure. Diagnosis is largely based on the epidemiological findings of faecal contamination of drinking water and serological exclusion of hepatitis A and B virus infection. Histological features of liver biopsy specimens are characteristic and virus-like particles in the stool are aggregated by antibody present in acute and convalescent phase sera of the test subject. NANB is widespread in India and several countries of South-East Asia; it is increasingly recognised in Africa and may occur in Latin America. Control measures include provision of clean water supplies, safe disposal of human excreta, and sound personal and food hygiene practices. Passive immunisation with immunoglobulin derived from healthy donors resident in the countries affected by the disease may protect vulnerable groups."
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I'm not sure what to make of this... is it just plain wrong or are there waterborne versions of Hep C or is this, perhaps, yet another kind of Hep?

Probably Hep E

I heard it from a good source you get it from eating ice cubes ; )

gosh if you'd read it instead of just hearing about it, it'd be truer.
;)

I heard you can get Hep C from watching bad TV shows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q-k-uN73Gk

word up, baby

And the newest of the new i read is the FHCV what translate to the Flying Hepatitis C Virus. It is the newest Indian thing. Comes from cow fart , fly's out of their asses, so they got to wear face mask at all times on the streets now. Avoiding walking beyond the cows , and they duck instantly if the cow aims it them with their tail end. I would not want to live in India as they got the most cattle anywhere in the world, lots of ducking that for sure. Just a great thing how the cows don't fly. Imagine the windshield of your car...

@reminder. LOL