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After 4IT0TRAyNeSFaORrMsAT,IOhN e’s cured of hepatitis C

Having lived with the hepatitis C virus It was there that he learned he had hepatitis C which
had gone undiagnosed since his late teens.
foRrEmSoErAe RthCanH4A0 NyeDarsI,NSNteOveVBAuTrnIOs N “It was a shock,” Burns recalls. “I felt healthy enough
and didn’t have any symptoms, but it just goes to show
of Orillia, Ont. was ready to give up you don’t always know what’s going on inside your
on the thought that he would ever be body.”
cured. Burns was diagnosed in the early days of the virus,
In his early 40s, Burns and his brother – who had only a few years after it had been discovered.
“They had only recently started calling it hepatitis C,”
bought the familMy bICusHinEeNssEfrRomINtTheEiGr fRatAhTerIOyeNars he says. “So there was little they could offer me for
treatment.”
earlier – decided to apply for partnership insurance to
cover any incidentals. After a routine blood test that Link to full story: click here.
was a requirement for the application, Burns learned
he had “irregularities in his blood” and was referred to
the Toronto Western Hospital’s (TWH) Francis Family
Liver Clinic.

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Steven Burns, second from left, at home with his family. Burns was cured of Bringing UHN into Focus
Hepatitis C after living with the virus for more than 40 years. (Photo: Burns Family)

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