Mr. Speaker, there is no vaccine against hepatitis C. At least, not yet. Scientists are working on it, but there is no vaccine right now.
There are ways to treat the disease itself, but we want to wait for recommendations from the Red Cross. What they are looking at is still very vague. We should not get too excited about all these proposals. I think we should take this a day at a time.
As I said before, hepatitis C has been with us since the forties, when we started our blood transfusion system. However, testing for hepatitis C has only been possible since the nineties. Since that time, out of the total number of blood donors, only 0.3 per cent were found to be infected with hepatitis C. The blood taken from these donors was never used.