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Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, has died at the age of 64. Anita was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver after contracting Hepatitis C from blood given during the birth of her youngest daughter, in 1971.

BBC reported in February this year:

She was diagnosed with Hepatitis C two years ago and cirrhosis, a long-term effect of the disease, recently.

"It's a bit of a bummer... I had no idea I had this virus. I was having routine blood tests when it showed up."

In a statement posted on her website, she added: "What I can say is that having Hep C means that I live with a sharp sense of my own mortality, which in many ways makes life more vivid and immediate.