Imagining raptors as being Hepatitis C viruses, you could take one major raptor type, such as eagles, and imagine these as being one of HCV’s main types (genotypes). But eagles as a group are made up of different sub types such as the American Bald Eagle and Australia’s Wedge Tailed Eagle and Sea Eagle.
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A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, viruses, prions, and parasites can be transmitted through blood transfusions. The use of a standard donor screening questionnaire as well as laboratory tests help to reduce the risk of an infectious organism being transmitted by blood transfusion.
https://www.cdc.gov/bloodsafety/bbp/diseases-organisms.html
It is much easier to talk of the Hepatitis C virus as if it is a single organism but in fact it is a range of viruses, similar enough to be called Hepatitis C virus, yet different enough to be classified into subgroups. Viruses are microscopic and no person could ever see them with the naked eye.
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Diseases and Organisms. The U.S. blood supply is safer than it has ever been. However, any bloodborne pathogen has the potential to be transmitted by blood transfusion. Transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) are infections resulting from the introduction of a pathogen into a person through blood transfusion.
https://www.cdc.gov/bloodsafety/bbp/diseases-organisms.html
Within each of above particular types of eagles, there are further differences. All Wedge Tailed Eagles, for example, differ from each other in regard to wing span, weight, color, beak size, etc. Similarly, within a Hepatitis C sub-type, individual viruses differ from each other ever so slightly.
http://www.hepatitiscentral.com/hcv/genotype/explained/
The main cause of hepatitis C is infection with a virus. The virus responsible for causing hepatitis C and many other forms of liver disease (hepatic fibrosis, complicated cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma) is called hepatitis C virus (HCV).
http://www.bhia.org/hepatitis/causes.htm
Any contaminated object that enters in contact with healthy blood can spread HCV inside the entire organism, causing disease. Other potential causes of hepatitis C transmission are the practice of unsafe sex and intravenous or intra-nasal drug use.
http://www.bhia.org/hepatitis/causes.htm
Like bacteria and parasites, viruses that are bloodborne and can be transmitted by blood transfusion. Donors are asked questions about their social behavior and health history to help minimize the risk of transfusion-transmitted viral diseases.
https://www.cdc.gov/bloodsafety/bbp/diseases-organisms.html
Hepatitis C is a potentially life-threatening infectious liver disease. Research results reveal that hepatitis C affects about 150.000 people in the United States each year, many patients with the acute form of the disease developing chronic hepatitis C in time.
http://www.bhia.org/hepatitis/causes.htm
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) that primarily affects the liver. During the initial infection people often have mild or no symptoms. Occasionally a fever, dark urine, abdominal pain, and yellow tinged skin occurs. The virus persists in the liver in about 75% to 85% of those initially infected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis-C
what type of organism is hepatitis c
Hepatitis C is a potentially life-threatening infectious liver disease type of organism.