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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.
1 In the U.S., infection with hepatitis C is the most common cause of chronic hepatitis and the most common reason for liver transplantation. 2  Hepatitis C is diagnosed by determining levels in the blood of antibodies to the virus and then confirming the infection with other tests for viral RNA. A minority of patients with hepatitis C have symptoms from organs outside of the liver. 2  In the U.S., infection with hepatitis C is the most common cause of chronic hepatitis and the most common reason for liver transplantation.