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An estimated 58 million people worldwide were infected with hepatitis C in 2019. Approximately 290,000 deaths from the virus, mainly from liver cancer and cirrhosis attributed to hepatitis C, also occurred in 2019. The existence of hepatitis C-originally identifiable only as a type of non-A, non-B hepatitis - was suggested in the 1970s and proven in 1989. Hepatitis C infects only humans and chimpanzees.

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