So that leaves us -- or at least me, anyways -- wondering where does this virus come from in the first place? Kinda like HIV -- it has to come from direct contact (in our case, mostly direct contact right into our bloodstreams!) so it's not like you can get it through hereditary means.
So where did this come from? Of all the reading I've done on the subject (and I still have lots more to do, to be sure), I still never read what it's origin is.
My question is this: if CDC is targeting illegal intravenous drug use as the primary cause of spreading the disease, how did the one person with the disease who was sharing the needles get it? Unlikely they were all from transfusions. But if it was from a transfusion, than we could say transfusions caused this. But how did so many people get so infected from transfusions? I simply cannot believe that the millions of people who supposedly have this disease - either known to them or not known to them - contracted this from illegal intravenous drug use.
Interesting thought about childhood vacs. I agree children are not considered a risk group .... but there's still alot about this disease we don't know.
I know I didn't offer anything here, but I still don't get how so many millions of people worldwide could have this - in far greater numbers than HIV - when direct blood contact is considered to be the nearly only way to get this.
Any thoughts?
Diane
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