Today, millions of Americans living with viral hepatitis, and most don’t know they have the virus.
- 4 million people are estimated to be living with hepatitis C in the United States. One study predicted the actual number to be as high as 4.7 million or as low as 2.5 million (Edlin et al.)
- In 2018, millennials (adults in their 20s and 30s) made up 36.5% of newly reported chronic hepatitis C infections, baby boomers (adults in their mid-50s to early 70s) made up 36.3% of newly reported chronic hepatitis C infections, and generation X (adults in their late 30s to early 50s) made up 23.1% of newly reported chronic hepatitis C infections
- Edlin BR, Eckhardt BJ, Shu MA, Holmberg SD, Swan T. Toward a more accurate estimate of the prevalence of hepatitis C in the United States. Hepatology. 2015;62(5):1353-1363. doi:10.1002/hep.27978