Hepatitis C cases cluster in states hit hard by opioids
December 21, 2018 by Amy Norton, Healthday Reporter
More than half of Americans with hepatitis C are living in just nine U.S. states—five of those in a region hit hard by the opioid epidemic, a new study shows.
The findings offer the latest look at the fallout from the nation's opioid crisis: It's feeding new cases of hepatitis C—a serious and potentially fatal liver infection.
Overall, "baby boomers"—Americans born between 1945 and 1965—still account for most cases of chronic hepatitis C. But, researchers said, a generation of young Americans is also being put at risk because of opioid abuse.
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