Friday, 9 September 2016

PRO/EDR> Hepatitis C - USA (09): (MA) injecting drug use

Hepatitis C -- United States
The number of hepatitis C cases statewide [in Massachusetts] has spiked nearly 80 percent in just 2 years, state data shows, and experts are raising the alarm about a crisis they say is fueled by the explosion of the state's heroin epidemic. State public health officials counted 311 cases of acute hepatitis C in Massachusetts in 2015, up from 273 the year before and just 174 in 2013 -- a 79 percent jump, according to state and federal data obtained by the Herald. The reported numbers, however,

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