It can be treated with a course of medication - but relies on people getting tested and then seeking treatment.

Patient urges people to get tested for potentially deadly disease

Professor John Dillon who helped run the project that saw Hepatitis C eradiated from the Tayside region.

NHS Tayside has become the first region to eliminate hepatitis C after pioneering a new strategy of taking the treatment straight to the drug users who most often carried the virus.

Tayside becomes first area in the world to 'effectively eliminate' hepatitis C

The father also revealed one of his sons had his brain removed for testing after his death, without the family’s knowledge. 

Father tells blood inquiry of horror of twins being infected with HIV

There are calls for a fresh inquiry into how thousands of NHS patients were given contaminated blood in the 1970s & 80s.

Campaign for new inquiry into contaminated blood

A national roadshow starting in Cambridge is urging people to be tested for Hepatitis C. 

Roadshow urges Hep C testing

Fatima Abdul Hussein went into hospital to give birth, little knowing she would come out with life-threatening Hepatitis C.

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