Guest guest Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Willie in hepatitis C PSA March 20, 2005 2:34 PM EST AUSTIN, Texas, Mar 20, 2005 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Singer Willie is appearing in a public service announcement to prevent hepatitis C -- the most common blood-borne infection in the United States. "It's a great cause," told the Austin American-Statesman. "Anything I can do, I'm glad to do." Hepatitis C, which can go undetected for many years and be deadly, infects nearly five times as many people as the HIV virus in the United States. Spears, the wife of 's bass player Bee Spears, is the executive producer of the public service announcement. She created the Spears Foundation after she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2001, decades after she was infected from what she called a brief encounter with drugs in 1968. More than half of the 4 million people who have hepatitis C in the United States don't know they have it -- it is spread by blood-to-blood contact -- with about 80 percent of people being exposed through shared needles. However, exposure can occur from sexual intercourse, long-term kidney dialysis, shared toothbrushes and razors, blood transfusions and organ transplants before July 1992 as well as tattooing or body piercing. http://start.earthlink.net/article/ent?guid=20050320/423d0350_29e_67020050320-888260601 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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