Alas a slim 20% of those infected will eliminate the virus from their body on their own depending on the virus strand the contracted. ... Someone with HCV will have highly contagious blood and sharing blood related things is generally not recommended. The symptoms of the virus are not nearly as obvious as any other virus. ... To test if you have the virus, doctors would look at family history and give a blood test. ... Additional tests can also tell what strain of virus you got the strain will say how serious the type of virus you got. ...

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Sometimes the articles give hope, sometimes they are grim, and all show how everyone can be touched by this disease. ... When AIDS was first discovered the" budget" was too low to give money for the" gay disease" research. ... Clinics give out contraceptives to prevent it and preach safe sex all over. ... Tuberculosis was once as bad as the AIDS virus. Today if, in some rare way, someone contracts the disease they are taken to the CDC headquarters and are quarantined and they find out how they got it. ...

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• Cigarette smoking increases susceptibility to colds and viruses. ... What happens to your body when you give up smoking 20 minutes after giving up Your blood pressure and your pulse rate return to normal. ... Get rid of the nicotine and you will get rid of these symptoms. 2-21 weeks after giving up Circulation improves. ... Giving up smoking will reduce your risk of most circulation problems. ... After 15 years Your risk of a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked. ...

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The calculations yield an estimated United States annual total of 3,000 lung cancer deaths, 11,000 deaths from other cancers, and 32,000 deaths from heart disease, giving a combined total of 46,000 deaths. ... Among these percentages the overall exposure fractions were adjusted to give higher fractions at younger ages and lower fractions at older ages. ... In the last question the individuals said that they do not want to die because of someone else's dirty habits. ...

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Those germs can be a virus, flu that someone else had, or just a disgusting fecal matter when grabbing a door knob. ... Britt gives this tip, "A simple way to help out the muscles of the eyes is to look away from the screen a couple of times an hour to give those muscles a rest and continue without a headache " (Britt). ...

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