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500 million people around the world are currently infected with chronic hepatitis B or C, many don't know they have the virus. You can only contract Hepatitis C if your blood comes into contact with infected blood and people who share needles to take heroin or steroids are at the biggest risk.

Recent studies have shown it is also possible to get Hepatitis C if you share bank notes or straws when snorting drugs.

Drugs that are inhaled like cocaine are corrosive and can make the inside of your nose bleed. If that happens, tiny spots of blood can fall onto the note you are using and if that's used by someone else who might have Hepatitis C, their blood can travel up your nose and into your bloodstream together with the infection.