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This patient’s use of intravenous drugs is a risk factor for developing hepatitis due to HCV. HCV is a type of flavivirus that replicates in the cytoplasm. Viruses of the flavivirus genus are enveloped, linear, single-stranded (ss), positive sense, RNA viruses with icosahedral capsids. Along with HCV, the genus includes, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, and Zika virus, among others.