How to Use hepatitis C in a Sentence

hepatitis C

noun

• The Penn doctors say using organs with hepatitis C could help close that gap.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 26 Oct. 2017
• Japanese doctors have used it for the last couple decades to treat some chronic hepatitis C patients, for one thing.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2017
• Wells suspects that she was exposed to hepatitis C during the same episode because coinfections were common in those days.
  — Sandra G. Boodman, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Northern Kentucky’s heroin epidemic and its hepatitis C outbreak are like a fire that is burning out of control.
  — Mark Schroer, Cincinnati.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• The past three years have seen a fourfold increase in hepatitis C and a slight uptick in HIV related to injection drug use.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2017
• The trial is funded in part by the drug company Merck, which manufactures the hepatitis C drug Zepatier.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 26 Oct. 2017
• About 18 percent of transplants were for acute liver failure; other important causes were hepatitis C and B as well as liver cancers.
  — Carolyn Crist, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• The first drugs that could cure hepatitis C came on the market in 2013.
  — Andy Marso, kansascity, 15 Feb. 2018
• The move was aimed to help fill the hole left by slowing sales of Gilead’s hepatitis C drugs.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• Now, hepatitis C can be cured 95% of the time with pills in as little as eight weeks.
  — John Whyte, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Gilead, in particular, has been in the crosshairs over the years for the prices of its HIV and hepatitis C medicines.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 May 2020
• That was the case for William Glover-Bey, who was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1992.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Some had contracted hepatitis C, which is spread the same way as HIV.
  — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 30 June 2021
• When the treatment ended in December 2009, my blood tests showed no signs of the hepatitis C virus.
  — Michael Ninburg, STAT, 15 Nov. 2019
• In 2014, an outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C in rural parts of the state led to a public health emergency.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
• Those standards now call for using the hepatitis C drugs.
  — Rebecca Boone, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
• There are more than 1,000 cases of hepatitis C in Gaza and the numbers are increasing.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Sub-licensing is now used for about 30 H.I.V. and hepatitis C drugs.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2019
• For states, a wake-up call came about five years ago, when a breakthrough drug for hepatitis C, Sovaldi, hit the market.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• The company’s big break came in 2011 with the approval of Incivek, a hepatitis C treatment.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• Having hepatitis C may very well have saved Jennifer Zeng’s life.
  — Fox News, 27 Oct. 2019
• That’d be a classic move against a virus—HIV typically gets a three-drug combo, and hepatitis C gets two.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
  — Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
• Most people who have hepatitis C won’t have symptoms for years if ever.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2022
• The hepatitis C virus is spread through contact with blood from an infected person.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• The path Saddler took was an attempt to curb a raging hepatitis C caseload, which had emerged as a direct result of the heroin crisis.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
• Syringe programs halve the spread of H.I.V. and hepatitis C; naloxone, when distributed to users and their peers, can cut overdose deaths by more than forty per cent.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Minot had the worst recent outbreak of hepatitis C in the country, and getting that under control had taken years.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• By the time Jaenisch's case was cured at age 31, the landscape of hepatitis C treatment had changed dramatically.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• State officials have long endorsed such programs as a proven way to prevent HIV and hepatitis C from running rampant as people share contaminated syringes.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024