{"id":59528,"date":"2024-05-19T17:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=59528"},"modified":"2024-05-19T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:17:03","slug":"huge-surge-in-demand-for-hepatitis-c-test-after-it-emerged-1700-who-caught-it-in-blood-transfusion-scandal-have-not-been-diagnosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/19\/huge-surge-in-demand-for-hepatitis-c-test-after-it-emerged-1700-who-caught-it-in-blood-transfusion-scandal-have-not-been-diagnosed\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge surge in demand for hepatitis C test after it emerged 1,700 who caught it in blood transfusion scandal have not been diagnosed"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_22134\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22134\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-770x492.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-1536x981.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-2048x1308.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-500x319.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A general view of a HIV test kit at Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre in Southwark, London, where Prince Harry is highlighting the fight against HIV and AIDS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A huge surge in demand for hepatitis C tests has emerged after it was revealed that 1,700 people who caught the disease in the blood transfusion scandal had not yet been diagnosed.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13434967\/Huge-surge-demand-hepatitis-C-test-blood-transfusion-scandal.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A huge surge in demand for hepatitis C tests has emerged after it was revealed that 1,700 people who caught the disease&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hepatitis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hiv-testing-kit-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59529,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59528\/revisions\/59529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}