The Facing Page
What hepatitis C is — the virus itself, its biology in plain terms, and why it behaved so quietly for so long in so many people.
- 01 What Hepatitis C Actually Is 4 min A plain explainer of what a hepatitis C virus is — an RNA virus, what it does inside the liver, and why 'hepatitis' is a description of effect rather than a single disease.
- 02 Why the Liver, and Not Somewhere Else 3 min Explains why hepatitis C targets the liver specifically — what the liver does and why a blood-borne virus that must replicate somewhere finds it a congenial site.
- 03 The Long Quiet 4 min Explores why hepatitis C so frequently produces no noticeable symptoms for years or decades — what that biological silence means and why it accounts for so many late diagnoses.
- 04 Acute and Chronic: Two Phases, One Virus 3 min Distinguishes the acute and chronic stages of infection — what each term means clinically, what the transition between them involves in general terms, and why the distinction matters for how clinicians think about it.