Everyone here can benefit from this message...
This is no critique on your article. Rather, I'd like to share with you a little known fact: the hepatitis C virus has never been isolated. This is important in the scholarly world of disease because the scientific community considers it absolutely essential that a virus has been isolated before the community jumps to the conclusion that it is a virus or something that can be "spread".
...and we all know that fact won't stop the pharmaceutical industry from churning a profit. Cause that's all any corporation can survive on. (And I am not demonizing profit--I'm an executive.)
Therefore, it is wrong to even suggest that you can "contract" hepatitis C. I learned a lot about this through my mother, who suffered from "hepatitis C", dug deep and never accepted that there was no cure, and eventually she realized it was all bullshit. She has been hepatitis C free ever since she stopped trying to cure a pharmaceutical pipe dream fantasy. In fact, she had always been hepatitis C free :)