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Hepatitis C Statistics. SHARE. RATEâââââ. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common bloodborne infection in the US. An estimated 4.1 million people in the US are infected with HCV (1.6% of the population), of whom 3.2 million have chronic infection.1,2 HCV infection can be asymptomatic, so it is possible to have HCV and not know it.
Hepatitis C is a disease caused by a virus that infects the liver. The virus, called the Hepatitis C virus or HCV for short, is just one of the hepatitis viruses. The other common hepatitis viruses are A and B, which differ somewhat from HCV in the way they are spread and treated.n easy reminder is C for chronic in Hepatitis C and A for acute in Hepatitis A. There are various causes for Hepatitis C. View the list of risk factors that increase your chance of infection with Hepatitis C.