My boyfriend is sick with hepatitis C, genotype 1B. Learned a month ago. Were unprotected. contacts, but I stayed healthy. Can a sick person to have healthy children and whether conceived without becoming infected partner? Virus is found in most sperm or penetrating into the blood? Is there an effective treatment for such a genotype?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist If a woman is healthy, then she will give birth to a healthy baby from an infected male. In the sperm of the virus there. Infection is possible only when the microdamage in the genital area when you create an opportunity for the virus to pass from the blood of an infected person to a healthy. Similar question: ... infecting hepatitis C through blood to the blood containing the hepatitis C virus came ...