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    Test all your adult and pregnant patients for hepatitis C. It could save their lives.

    CDC recommends testing all adult and pregnant patients for hepatitis C.

    Read the 2020 CDC hepatitis testing guidelines.

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    Hepatitis C is on the rise in the United States.

    In 2019, 63 percent of new infections occurred among people ages 20-39.

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    Patients with hepatitis C often have no symptoms.

    Many patients with acute or chronic hepatitis C don’t look or feel sick and therefore don’t know they are infected.

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    ACOG recommends testing all pregnant patients for hepatitis C during each pregnancy.

    Testing can identify future care and treatment needs.

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    Hepatitis C can be cured.

    Simple, well-tolerated treatments can cure more than 90 percent of hepatitis C cases.

    Early detection can save lives. Talk to your patients about hepatitis C testing.

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