Hepatitis C: why baby boomers should get tested

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• Alternative Title:
  Know more hepatits
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Center for Global Health (U.S.). Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria.
• Description:
  CDC now recommends that anyone born from 1945 through 1965 get tested for Hepatitis C. More than 75% of adults with Hepatitis C are baby boomers. Baby boomers are people born from 1945 through 1965. Most of them don't know they are infected.
  
  Part of the public health campaign Know more hepatits, funded in part by support from the CDC Foundation and CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
  
  Publication No. 220401.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (743.6 KB, 1 p.).
• Subjects:
  Hepatitis C, Chronic Hepatitis C/diagnosis Hepatitis C/prevention & Control
• Series:
  Know More Hepatitis
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resourc; 1 online resource ([1] p. : ill.)
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:16811471e21fe3e5fe6337858a5e3cc64c98bb11b2a98623e8b75291522c9894af700f2f4701c00088bd27238381a6597fc1d7fc93a2b5af808330d18c796cae
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12225/cdc_12225_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.84 MB ]