FROM HealthDay News

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Middle-aged most often affected, and many are unaware they have been infected, CDC says.

Deaths from hepatitis C have increased steadily in the United States in recent years, in part because many people don’t know they have disease, a new government report says.

More Americans now die of hepatitis C than from HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, according to 1999-2007 data reviewed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And most of those dying are middle-aged.

From same article:

“Seventy-three percent of hepatitis C deaths were reported among those 45 to 64 years old,” Holmberg said. “As the population living with hepatitis C in the United States — 66 percent of whom were born between 1945 and 1964 — has aged and entered a high-risk period of life for hepatitis C-related disease, deaths associated with hepatitis C have increased substantially.”

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.Click link below for entire article:

http://www.everydayhealth.com/hepatitis/0221/hepatitis-c-now-kills-more-americans-than-hiv.aspx?xid=aol_eh-sex_2_20120220_&aolcat=HLT&icid=maing-grid7|myaol|dl20|sec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D137226

Addendum:

.Click link below for Hepatitis C symptoms:

http://www.symptomfind.com/diseases-conditions/hepatitis-c/

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