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CDC Now Recommends All Baby Boomers Receive One-Time Hepatitis C Test

New approach will help avert major increases in liver disease and deaths in the U.S.

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Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2012.  All U.S. baby boomers should get a one-time test for the hepatitis C virus, according to final recommendations published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 30 baby boomers – the generation born from 1945 through 1965 – has been infected with hepatitis C, and most don’t know it. Hepatitis C causes…

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