As someone who has never had a blood transfusion yet, but with three children and a former wife who has, it appears we are at risk of a liver infection called hepatitis C. Details are on http://www.hepctrust.org.uk
Any of my former partners are also entitled to a free NHS hepatitis C test, so I will go for mine next week? Meanwhile down at the pig farm hepatitis E is endemic.
The strange thing about liver virus is they can cause cirrhosis. Usually this is blamed on booze, but some research shows that it is caused by eating pork rather than alcohol, giving an infection that causes the liver incapable of surviving a piss up.
The hepatitis E epidemic is supposed to be a threat to pregnant women only, but anyone who eats undercooked pork, or sausages, can get the infection, without many symptoms, but with booze it can be fatal!
I recently came across a person with an antabuse implant, to stop her vodka habit, and in common with some people who take similar metrodospistoline antibiotics was excused clean hands?
These people seem to be at risk from alcohol based hand wipes in hospitals, and it would be good to have this risk evaluated? According to New Scientist, only 6% of medical practitioners use alcohol hand wipes, maybe this is because patients like to eat them, to satisfy alcohol withdrawal in hospital.
Alcohol and Nicotine are both very effective bug exterminators, unfortunately people also enjoy them, at the expense of the medics?
Get your free hepatitis c test now, why not campaign for a hepatitis e test?
Can alcohol based hand wipes injure recovering alcoholics? Do people really eat them?