How could a person have gotten hepatitis C?
HCV is spread primarily by direct contact with human blood. For example, you may have gotten infected with HCV if: you ever injected street drugs, as the needles and/or other drug “works” used to prepare or inject the drug(s) may have had someone else’s blood that contained HCV on them you received blood, blood products, or solid organs from a donor whose blood contained HCV you were ever on long-term kidney dialysis as you may have unknowingly shared supplies/equipment that had someone else’s blood on them you were ever a healthcare worker and had frequent contact with blood on the job, especially accidental needlesticks your mother had hepatitis C at the time she gave birth to you.
