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Can you get hcv from reusing your own needles, even if you never used anyone elses? or can you only get it from another infected person?
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Hepatitis : Hepatitis c is a viral infection that is primarily spread through body fluids. You can get it from any activity that exchanges body fluids, including tattooing and sexual intercourse. If you never--even once--use an IV needle that has been used by someone else, and if the drugs you are injecting have never--even once--been mixed in a syringe or elsewhere with drugs being used by someone else, then your IV drug use will not give you hepatitis c. Those a very big "ifs, " and ones over which you may not have full control.
Answered 7/13/2017
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