Hepatitis C — United States
The heroin epidemic is driving up hepatitis C infections, with the biggest increase in people in their 20s, USA health officials said [Thu 11 May 2017]. The number of new infections nearly tripled in 5 years, to about 2400 in 2015. The virus is spread by sharing needles to inject drugs, and the increase coincided with a surge in heroin use. But officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention think the reported infections are only a fraction of the actual number. Most people don’t
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