An estimated 4 million individuals in the USA are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus. Annually 8,000 to 10,000 of these subjects will die of liver-related complications and approximately 1,000 will require liver transplantation. The United States military high rates of HCV infection similar to the general US population (1.6%). However, it is a younger population and its natural history of HCV infection has not been studied. Therefore, the ...
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