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During the 1960's and 1970's scientist began to notice that people carried virus in their blood known has hepatitis. They discovered two types of hepatitis A and B, which they went on to develop blood testing to identify such types of virus's. However blood tests showing hepatitis were still coming back with negative readings for A and B so they called these results non A and non B hepatitis. The virus was not identified until the 1989 by Dr Harvey J Alter, who was the Chief of the Infectious Disease section in the Department Transfusion Medicine of the US International Institutes of Health. It was then renamed hepatitis C... In March 2004 the Skipton Fund was set up in the UK to help and support people who contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood from treatment received by the NHS that required the need for blood products. During 2011 the Department of Health in the UK funded another charity, The Caxton Foundation which was set up by the British Government to help and..