Baby Boomers: Testing for Hepatitis C Virus Could Save Your Life (ContributorNetwork)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]ContributorNetwork - A 2 percent prevalence of hepatitis C virus emerged recently in the U.S. adult population and this prevalence translates to an estimated 4.1 million persons in the U.S. Fifty percent of the cases arise in the Baby Boomers age group born between 1945 and 1964. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention portrays hepatitis C viral infection as causing more deaths than HIV in the United States. Hepatitis C caused about 13,000 deaths in 2005 and the CDC projects the number of deaths to rise to 35,000 by 2030.

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