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Author Topic: Hep C Spread Through African Slave Trade  (Read 6300 times)

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Hep C Spread Through African Slave Trade
« on: March 04, 2015, 11:42:22 am »
There is substantial data about how genotype 2 of the hepatitis C virus migrated from Africa to other parts of the world via the slave trade in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

 It is most likely that hepatitis C was spread throughout Africa by European campaigns to treat endemic diseases in Africa with injectable medications. Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), syphilis, yaws, malaria, and leprosy were (and some still are) rampant in Africa.

Unfortunately, the needles were reused or not properly cleaned.  Millions of unsafe injections were given at this time. Hep C genotype 2 was then spread to Central and South America via the transatlantic slave trade.

For more info: http://www.hepmag.com/articles/hepatitis_genotype_2_2502_26760.shtml
« Last Edit: March 04, 2015, 11:44:27 am by Hep Editors »

 


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