Savvy Senior

Should All Baby Boomers Get Tested for Hepatitis C?

Dear Savvy Senior,

I've recently read that all baby boomers should get tested for hepatitis C. Is this really necessary, and if so, what are the testing and treatment procedures? Healthy Boomer

Dear Healthy,

It's true. Both the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that all baby boomers ? people born from 1945 through 1965 ? get a hepatitis C test.

The reason is because baby boomers account for 75 percent of the 3 million or so hepatitis C cases in the U.S. Those that are infected are at very high risk of eventually developing liver cancer, cirrhosis or other fatal liver diseases.

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