Hepatitis C is more transmissible than HIV, has no vaccine, and historically carried a 40-50% chance of dying of liver failure within a decade if untreated.

“Hep C was a very transmissible virus if my memory serves me correctly it's at least an order of magnitude more transmissible than HIV and no treatment no vaccine so I mean I remember being scared senseless of Hep C and to think that as you said today I think it's about a thirty to sixty day course of a medication albeit a very expensive one and you take somebody who's got a forty to fifty percent chance of dying of liver failure in a decade and you cure them”