How It Spreads
How transmission actually works — the one fact about blood that answers most of the questions people arrive with.
- 01 Blood: The One Fact That Answers Most of the Rest 6 min The flagship piece — a careful, unhurried account of why blood-to-blood contact is the transmission route, what that means precisely, and why understanding this single fact resolves most of the anxiety people arrive with.
- 02 What Carries Risk and What Does Not 4 min A plain comparison piece: routes where blood-to-blood contact can realistically occur versus routes where it cannot — explained in terms of the mechanism, not in terms of behaviour or moral framing.
- 03 Why Living Together Does Not Transmit It 3 min Directly addresses one of the most common points of anxiety — that sharing a home, a kitchen, crockery or ordinary physical contact with someone who has hepatitis C does not carry transmission risk, and why that is so mechanistically.
- 04 The Question About Sexual Transmission 4 min Sets out what is and is not established about sexual transmission — acknowledging the nuance without evasion, explaining the mechanism, and directing specific questions to a clinician.
- 05 Before Screening Existed: What Historical Exposure Meant 4 min Explains the period before blood-supply screening was standard — why transfusions and certain medical procedures carried risk that they no longer do — giving historical context for people who may be wondering about past events.