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Does chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection prevent patients from working?

The effect of HCV infection on work activities depends on the patient’s personality. When notified that they have a chronic infection, some people develop anxiety, depression, insomnia, headache, and irritability, which are unrelated to etiology of the disease per se. There are few ways in which a physician can objectively conclude that the patient suffers from a disability secondary to the infection, especially in previously asymptomatic patients with normal aminotransferase levels.