Amos Stevens
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Willie Nelson in hepatitis C PSA
[Hollywood / Entertainment News]: AUSTIN, Texas, March 20 : Singer Willie Nelson 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," Nelson 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.Julia Spears, the wife of Nelson's bass player Bee Spears, is the executive producer of the public service announcement.She created the Julia 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.
- -- Copyright 2005 by United Press International.
[Hollywood / Entertainment News]: AUSTIN, Texas, March 20 : Singer Willie Nelson 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," Nelson 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.Julia Spears, the wife of Nelson's bass player Bee Spears, is the executive producer of the public service announcement.She created the Julia 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.
- -- Copyright 2005 by United Press International.
