When he was told that medicines were available that could cure his disease, he started to cry.
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他只是不敢相信这是真的。
He just couldn’t believe it.
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“我知道自己是如何感染的，”Ali回忆说。
"I know how I got infected," says Ali, who recalls that his local barber used unhygienic instruments that were the likely source of the virus that infected him and his siblings.
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巴基斯坦的丙型肝炎患病率高居世界第二，仅次于埃及。
Pakistan has the world’s second highest prevalence of hepatitis C, second only to Egypt.
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2007年开展的一项调查发现，旁遮普省近7%的人患有丙型肝炎，而全国约有5%的人口受到感染。
A survey done in 2007 found that close to 7% of people in the province of Punjab had hepatitis C, while around 5% of people were infected in the entire country.
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不安全注射是主要传播原因
Unsafe injections and unhygienic instruments are major cause of spread
"The high prevalence of hepatitis is due to many factors in both health care settings and in the community," says Dr Saeed Akhter, President of the PKLI.
“This includes use of dirty syringes, failure to screen blood before transfusion, use of unhygienic dental instruments, reuse of razor blades by barbers and poor infrastructure for infectious waste disposal."
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丙型肝炎是一种血液传播病毒，它导致的肝脏疾病从短暂、轻度病症到严重、终身患病，不尽相同。
Hepatitis C is a bloodborne virus that can cause liver disease that ranges from a short, mild illness to a serious, lifelong condition.
WHO estimates that approximately 71 million people worldwide have chronic hepatitis C infection and around 400 000 people die every year from it, mostly from cirrhosis or liver cancer.