medical illness / hepatitis C. She / viral infection / arthritis / polio virus / advanced cirrhosis / hepatitis C. While / cirrhosis / Hepatitis B / widespread cirrhosis / chronic controlled condition / angina / hepatitis / muscle cramps / hepatitis C. In / fatal liver failure / fatal cirrhosis / cancer / migraines / hepatitis-C epidemic / fever / estimated thirty thousand new infections / muscle aches / infection / viral hepatitis / hepatitis C. The / infectious microbe / fibrosis / hepatitis A / active infection / epidemic / hepatitis C / fatigue / varices / polio vaccine / intact infectious microbe / ruptured varices / thyroid dysfunction / necrosis / disease / hepatitis-C infections / hepatitis C. Researchers / liver cancer / Chronic active hepatitis / delirium / /
MedicalTreatment
blood transfusions / blood transfusion / Body piercing / liver transplant / bypass surgery / drug therapy / /
Organization
N.I.H. / Red Cross / Food and Drug Administration / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Congress / American Association of Blood Banks / /
Person
David Satcher / Don Brady / JEROME GROOPMAN / Donald Brady / Dominique Benet / /
Position
prep-school Latin teacher and the head / physician / Surgeon General of the United States / pathologist / counsel / teacher / actuary / liver specialist / Surgeon General / nurse / /
The New Yorker THE SHADLOW EPIDEMIC Why does the Surgeon General want letters sent to hundreds of thousands of people informing them that they might be dying? BY JEROME GROOPMAN May 11, 1998