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Hepatitis G Health Video

Last Update: October 23, 2008

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Hepatitis G is caused by a viral infection but does not cause any disease process or symptoms. Learn more about hepatitis G in this health video.

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  • Does not cause symptoms or problems
  • Only blood tests will reveal Hepatitis G

About this Author

Dr. Carolyn Cooper joined On Call Medical Group in 2007. She is a Board Certified Internal Medicine physician, and has been practicing in San Francisco for over seven years. She received a BS from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and completed her medical education at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. Dr Cooper completed her internship and residency at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She has previously worked as a Clinical Investigator at Stanford University School of Medicine, and in private practice in San Francisco. Dr Cooper has participated in many research studies, and is also widely published.

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Video Transcript

CAROLYN COOPER, MD: I'm Dr. Carolyn Cooper and I'm going to be talking about hepatitis G. Hepatitis G was first described in 1995 when a surgeon whose initials were GB became unwell with the hepatitis, no cause was found for this hepatitis. A virus was subsequently isolated in 1995 and has been named hepatitis G. Infection with hepatitis G does not actually cause any clinical disease and the clinical significance is unknown. It is diagnosed by blood test and it is quite common in blood donors in the United States but does not cause any disease process that we know of at this point.

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