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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.
Baby boomers are five times more likely to have Hepatitis C than other adult Americans.. The new recommendations strengthen existing guidelines that state that all people at high risk for hepatitis C should be tested. While we continue to recommend testing for high-risk individuals, baby boomers are now added to the list, Frieden says. This move could help identify 800,000 more Americans with hepatitis C.