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re: Why do so many Baby Boomers have Hep C?
Posted on 3/24/17 at 3:41 pm to Titus Pullo
Posted on 3/24/17 at 3:41 pm to Titus Pullo
They don't, but Gilead has slowed with profits so they're looking for other avenues to sell Harvoni/Sovaldi.
Also, all of these answers are wrong for the most part. There are plenty of cases, but it's no big epidemic. The stock is at a 52 wk low, great value and a 3% dividend to ease the pain.
Also, all of these answers are wrong for the most part. There are plenty of cases, but it's no big epidemic. The stock is at a 52 wk low, great value and a 3% dividend to ease the pain.
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 3:44 pm to Arthur Bach
I would hit the plasma bank on state street then hit Murphys for a cheap buzz...
Posted on 3/24/17 at 3:47 pm to Arthur Bach
Is it true that you can give it to yourself, if you participate in IV drug use?
By not even sharing a needle, just reusing your own.
By not even sharing a needle, just reusing your own.
This post was edited on 3/24/17 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 3/24/17 at 3:50 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Bad blood. My younger brother has it. Got bad blood after a car wreck. They didn't have the scrutiny they have now
Yep. My uncle died from it fifteen years ago because of blood transfusions. At least now there's a cure.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:10 pm to Walt OReilly
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What does hep C do to a person?
Causes inflammation of the liver, which leads to scarring/cirrhosis, which almost always leads to liver failure or liver cancer.
It's almost impossible to get from sex. You get if blood to blood contact. Transfusions, intravenous drugs. Even sharing a bloody coke straw/bill.
Some people have it for years and have almost no bad effects. Some people don't make it long at all. I don't think the medical community knows why that is.
This post was edited on 3/24/17 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:15 pm to Darth_Vader
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Then once the boomers die off this current generation will be next in line seeing how we are having an explosion of IV drug use again
I don't think that is completely accurate. Back when most of the boomers were doing IV drugs, shite like AIDS wasn't around, and people were much more lax in their needle hygienic behaviors. You would think that people are more knowledgeable now and cleaner in their shooting up habits.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:20 pm to Sayre
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You would think that people are more knowledgeable now and cleaner in their shooting up habits.
shite. If sharing a needle is what is needed to get high, I bet 99/100 would do it if they were sick enough.
And if it can be caught by just reusing your same gear, then that's a whole other can of worms.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:24 pm to Titus Pullo
My sister had a blood transfusion in 1985 when childbirth ripped her to shreds.
Bad blood in the transfusion gave her Hep C.
Bad blood in the transfusion gave her Hep C.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:29 pm to Sayre
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I don't think that is completely accurate. Back when most of the boomers were doing IV drugs, shite like AIDS wasn't around, and people were much more lax in their needle hygienic behaviors. You would think that people are more knowledgeable now and cleaner in their shooting up habits.
Did you not read the CDC link about the comeback of Hep C and how it's tied to the explosion of IV drug use the last decade or so?
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:35 pm to Sayre
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Even sharing a bloody coke straw/bill.
Good to know actually.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:51 pm to Walt OReilly
Use your own hundy from now own Walt. Don't share.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:55 pm to Titus Pullo
Posted on 3/24/17 at 5:29 pm to Titus Pullo
Because pharma came out with a bazillion dollar drug to cure it and they know baby boomers have medicare and the drug will be covered. Same question a nurse friend and I discussed. My question was, Why are baby boomers in a class more susceptible to Hepatitis C, than any other class of people? It's a medical sham!!!
Posted on 3/24/17 at 5:42 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Bad blood. My younger brother has it. Got bad blood after a car wreck. They didn't have the scrutiny they have now
It wasn't that long ago that hep non a non b was reclassified as hep c. I had a friend that was a blood bank manager for abbot labs in the mid 80's and he sold the testing equipment for blood donations.
I imagine that if you had surgery requiring a transfusion prior to the mid eighties that it would be like playing Russian Roulette regarding blood borne diseases.
Don't judge and don't hate.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 5:46 pm to Titus Pullo
they are a dirty, sickly generation.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 5:48 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Apparently so are the millennials.
Don't believe me?
Ask Darth. He's got a graph.
Don't believe me?
Ask Darth. He's got a graph.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 6:20 pm to Titus Pullo
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Apparently so are the millennials.
Don't believe me?
Ask Darth. He's got a graph.
I know you're pretty stupid, but do you really not know what the CDC is?
Posted on 3/24/17 at 6:42 pm to Isabelle81
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Because pharma came out with a bazillion dollar drug to cure it and they know baby boomers have medicare and the drug will be covered. Same question a nurse friend and I discussed. My question was, Why are baby boomers in a class more susceptible to Hepatitis C, than any other class of people? It's a medical sham!!!
You and your nurse friend are very, very uninformed
Medicare will pay for it
Seriously, this thread has so many levels of stupid with people givings answers to questions they know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 6:42 pm to Btrtigerfan
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In a world full of Artie Lang's, don't be a Jenny McCarthy.
Jenny McCarthy or Pam Anderson?
Posted on 3/24/17 at 8:07 pm to jimbeam
jimbeam
From kaplan?
From kaplan?
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