Hepatitis C — United States
Southeast Alaska has seen a nearly 500 percent increase in the rate of young adults with hepatitis C in the last 5 years. Hepatitis C is the most common chronic blood-borne infection in the USA. An estimated 3 and a half million people are infected in the USA.
For many years it was mainly reported in older generations, the Baby Boomers, infected with blood transfusions and organ transplants done before blood screening became widespread in 1992. The infection can also be spread by sharing
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