21.   However, Shirley Fannin, Los Angeles County director of communicable disease control, said the hepatitis virus is usually transmitted from a fecal source.

22.   In the alphabet soup of hepatitis viruses, C is the most commonly diagnosed culprit in liver-transplant cases.

23.   Injection drug use is the most common means of transmitting the hepatitis C virus.

24.   In the United States, infection with the hepatitis C virus is four times more common than with the AIDS virus.

25.   It would be the second new type of hepatitis virus reported in recent months.

26.   It will take another blood test to determine which hepatitis virus made him sick.

27.   Retrospective studies done decades later determined the source of that illness to be the hepatitis E virus.

28.   Researchers have identified for the first time an infectious clone of the hepatitis C virus, a development that experts say could help spur treatment research.

29.   Recent studies indicate the combination works better than Intron A alone against the hepatitis C virus.

30.   Similarly, it took several years to show that the hepatitis C virus was a common cause of chronic illness.