Where did the hepatitis C virus come from?
It is believed that the hepatitis C virus has existed for thousands of years, however, scientists discovered the virus responsible for causing the illness and called it hepatitis C virus in 1988. Before then, infections with the hepatitis C virus were called non-A non-B hepatitis. This does not answer the question above Although it is much easier to talk of the hepatitis C virus as if it is a single organism, in fact it is a group of viruses, similar enough to be called hepatitis C virus, yet different enough to be classified into subtypes.
