Module 10: Understanding Hepatitis C, Screen 5 of 11

How Big of a Problem Is Hepatitis C?

Get the facts on Hepatitis C. Watch CDC's video: http://youtu.be/S_bDKPMsNNY Here are the numbers:
  • 170 m illion people in the world have hepatitis C
  • 3.9 million people in the United States have been infected with HCV, and 3.2 million are chronically infected
  • State estimates suggest that there are approximately 750,000 Californians living with chronic HCV
  • Deaths related to hepatitis C nearly doubled in California between 1995 and 2004
  • Baby boomers (people born 1945–1965) make up 60 percent of all chronic HCV cases in California
  • 16 percent of all new chronic HCV cases reported in California in 2011 were from state prisons

  
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