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Hepatitis virus C is a 30~50 nm RNA virus, Hepacavirus. Before the cloning by Chiron group in 1989, its infection has been diagnosed as non-A, non-B blood-borne hepatitis and diagnosis was made by "exclusion diagnosis". Over 90 % of post-transfusion hepatitis before 1992 was HCV infection.