51.   Like the AIDS virus, hepatitis C often is transmitted through sexual contact, bodily fluids and sharing of intravenous drug needles.

52.   Many intravenous drug users support their habit by prostitution and in turn infect customers, who then infect other partners.

53.   Ms. McGovern says such a service is rare for women with AIDS, most of them black and Hispanic and infected through intravenous drug use.

54.   More recently, blood is excluded only on the basis of certain high-risk behavior, like intravenous drug use.

55.   Most are intravenous drug users or their partners, and many have children.

56.   Next it cropped up in intravenous drug users.

57.   Ninety percent of all cases are intravenous drug users.

58.   Not only are intravenous drug users becoming infected, but so are crack addicts and other drug abusers, many of whom are women.

59.   Officials said the program offering clean hypodermic needles to intravenous drug users is almost certain to pass.

60.   Now, intravenous drug use with unclean needles is the most common known mode of transmission.