Did you know that:

 

 

*almost 5 million people in the U.S. have Hepatitis C?

 

 

*only about 1/3 even know they have it? 

 

 

*the liver is a noncomplaining organ so you could have liver cirrhosis and not even know it?

 

 

*there is not a vaccine for Hepatitis C?

 

 

*it is transmitted blood to blood and most everyone has some type of risk factor?

 

 

*it can live outside the body for up to 4 days?  

(It has been transmitted in hospitals, pain clinics, MD offices, dental offices, tattoo parlors, beauty and barber shops, endoscopy centers, cancer centers, kidney dialysis units, reuse of multidose vials and tubing, etc.  Any place a blood to blood transmission might occur)

 

*Our blood supply was not tested for Hep C until 1992?

 

 

*Hepatitis C is almost five times more prevalent than HIV? 

 

 

Have YOU been tested for Hepatitis C?   

 

 

Please ask your doctor to add it to your next lab tests!

 

 

 

 

Did you know  that:

 

 

*1 in 12 people in the world has some form of hepatitis?  

 

 

*equals almost 500 million people?  

 

 

*about 1 million people a year die from hepatitis?   

 

 

*Hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver transplants in the U.S.?  

 

 

*about 2/3 of people waiting for a liver transplant in the U.S. will die waiting because there aren't enough organs to "go around"  (Please sign your organ donor cards!) 

 

 

*about 17,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a liver transplant? 

 

 

 

 

Do you find these statistics staggering??  

 

 

 

So that we can continue helping others you can help with your generous tax deductible donation to:

 

H.E.A.L.S of the South

 

 

Hepatitis Education Awareness and Liver Support

PO Box 180813

Tallahassee, FL  32318

 

 

www.HEALSoftheSouth.org has a PayPal button