You've seen babies getting vaccinated to protect them from diseases right? Well, there are a few diseases against which we do not have any vaccines! One of them is a type of Hepatitis, i.e., Hepatitis C. Here's why we do not have a vaccine against this disease!

2. HEPATITISCAND
ITSVACCINE
Science is Confusing

3. WHATAREWELOOKINGAT?
What is Hepatitis C, HCV
and is it dangerous?
01
TheDisease
What is a vaccine and why do
we not have a vaccine for
HCV?
TheVaccine
Can we treat it?
Treatment
02
03

4. WHATISHEPATITISC?
Hepatocytes = Liver Cells.

5. THETYPESOFHEPATITIS
B
C
D
E
A

6. WHATCAUSESHEPATITIS?
⟶ No that is not how Viruses actually look!
⟶ That! That is how they actually look!
That is what an
Electron Microscope
looks like!

7. WHATCAUSESHEPATITIS?
HepatitisE
HepatitisC
HepatitisD
HepatitisA
Caused by the Hepatitis A
Virus (HAV)
HepatitisB
Caused by the Hepatitis C
Virus (HCV)
Caused by the Hepatitis B
Virus (HBV)
Caused by the Hepatitis E
Virus (HEV)
Caused by the Hepatitis D
Virus (HDV)

8. WHATCAUSESHEPATITISC?
HepatitisC
Caused by the Hepatitis C Virus
(HCV)

9. HOWDOESHEPATITISCSPREAD?
OTHERBLOOD-BLOOD
CONTACT
SHARINGNEEDLESOR
NON-STERILENEEDLES
VERTICAL
TRANSMISSION

10. ABOUTTHEDISEASE
Maybe
Sometimesthere
arenosymptoms
Sometimestheyare mild
Sometimestheycan
beasdangerous
HepatitisBVirus
70– 80%of
infectedpeople
face nosymptoms

12. VACCINES
HAV HBV HCV HDV HEV
VACCINES ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓

13. WhatareVaccines?
⟶ Edward Jenner

14. WHYDOWENOTHAVEAVACCINEFORHCV?
01
02
03
04
01 HCV has 7 genotypes.
02 30% divergence seen
between them.
03 HBV has only 8%
divergence in contrast
04 Many more reasons!

15. TREATMENT
AntiviralDrugs
01 03
02 04
More
Medicines!
Medicines
Surgery&
Medicines

16. PREVENTION
Never shareneedles Nosharingpersonal
careitems
Avoiddirectexposureto
bloodproductsandblood
Choosetattooand
peircingparlors
carefully

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WATCHING!

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