Hepatitis C Now Kills More Americans Than HIV?
~ The Rebel ~
2012/02/22 19:13:58
Deaths from hepatitis C have increased steadily in the United States in recent years, in part because many people don’t know they have disease, a new government report says.
More Americans now die of hepatitis C than from HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, according to 1999-2007 data reviewed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And most of those dying are middle-aged.
“These data underscore the urgent need to address the health threat posed by chronic hepatitis B and C in the United States,” said investigator Dr. Scott Holmberg, chief of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch in CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis.
About 3.2 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C, a major cause of liver cancer and cirrhosis, the CDC authors said.
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- Tom 2012/02/22 21:01:13
+1Yep; easier to catch, very hard to cure.reply - zombiedaizy 2012/02/22 20:01:49+1scary to think aboutreply
