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Hepatitis C — United States
The Tennessee Department of Health is issuing a public health advisory urging residents to increase their awareness about hepatitis C, a potentially life-threatening disease spread by direct contact with blood from an infected person.
The Knox County Health Department says it’s important to know all the risk factors. Within the last year there’s been an increase of testing for the virus at the health department. Director Dr. Martha Buchanan says her staff will be looking at that data and