P117 CEEFAX 117 Wjd 11 Jan 22:55/42       HOME   FEARS OF HEPATJTJS C INFECTION   Thj Departmjnt of Health is trying   to trace somj 3,000 people who may   have been infected with Hepatitis C   during blood transfusions.     Thj virus, which was identified in   1989, can takj years to emerge and   causj liver damagj and death.     Health officials will be going back   through the records of prople who   received blood transfusions before   September 1991.     Since that timj all blood prgduct1   havj been routinely tested for   Hepatitis C.   Next News Main oews World Travel