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• • Hepatitis C targets baby boomers
    WASHINGTON – Deaths from liver-destroying hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers are most at risk.
  • Baby boomers at elevated hepatitis C risk
    ATLANTA, Feb. 21 (UPI) — An estimated 3.2 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C, and two-thirds of that number are baby boomers born between 1945 and 1964, researchers say.
  • Video: New worry for baby boomers: Hepatitis C
    Half of the 3 million Americans infected with Hepatitis C don’t even know it. NBC’s Nancy Snyderman reports. (Nightly News)
  • Hepatitis C killing more Americans than HIV
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Hepatitis C has surpassed HIV as a killer of U.S. adults, and screening all "baby boomers" could be one way to stem the problem, according to two new government studies. Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by a virus of the same name that is usually passed through contact with infected blood. An estimated 75 to 85 percent of infections become chronic, which can …
  • Hepatitis C deaths up, baby boomers most at risk
    Deaths from liver-destroying hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers especially should take heed — they are most at risk.
  • Hepatitis C death rates rise, 1 in 33 baby boomers has disease
    Officials considering asking anyone born between 1945 and 1965 to get blood test for hepatitis C