I am saying you may have been exposed at some time in the past but you body has a 25% chance of beating the infection on it’s own without any treatment.
People who were once infected with the hep c virus will test postitve for antibodies to hep c for the rest of their lives.
Antibodies are not the virus they are made by your own body when it tries to fight an infection. For example, if you ever had chicken pox or were immunized against chicken pox if your blood is tested you will have chicken pox antibodies. This is how our bodies fight infection and how immunizations prevent infection.
Unfortunately hep c is a tough virus and our antibodies are not able to successfully fight off the virus which is why there is no immunization yet for hep c.
The antibody test only means you were exposed to hep c in the past. Occasionally there can be false positives but this is very rare.
Hep c is not generally considered to be an STD. Hep c is a blood borne infection requiring hep c infected blood to enter the blood stream of an uninfected person. For those with multiple sex partners, those who practice rough decor in the presence of the HIV virus there is an increased risk of sexual transmission.