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Hepatitis C, Why Baby Boomers Should Be Concerned
Posted by Sandy Thompson
Baby boomers are individuals born between 1945 and 1965 and currently the largest living adult generation. Based on the 2016 U.S. population ranking by age, there are approximately 74.1 million baby boomers in the United States and they have the highest incidences of hepatitis C infections. With such a large population, combined with previous unsafe medical procedures, baby boomers are 5 times more likely to have hepatitis C than any other adult. Out of the more than three million people living with hepatitis C, three out of every four are baby boomers.   According to the CDC, most baby boomers were infected in the 1960s through the 1980s due to contact with blood from an infected person, medical equipment and procedures prior to universal precautions and infection control procedures being adopted. Additionally, baby boomers were exposed to contaminated blood supplies before widespread screening in 1992. In fact, hepatitis C was not discovered until 1989 and blood donations ...
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