Only half of those with HCV complete confirmatory RNA test

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These data give us an idea of the gap between those who are and those who are not receiving the second follow-up test, showing us that we have a substantial challenge in front of us.”</p> <div class="mug right"><img width="90" height="120" alt="John Ward, MD" src="/web/20130624081246im_/http://www.healio.com/~/media/Images/Mugs/IDN/W/Ward_John_90x120 w 1 px border.jpg"/>  <p class="name"><strong><strong>John Ward</strong></strong></p> </div> <p></p> <p></p> <p>The researchers evaluated surveillance data from eight sites in the United States, obtained from 2005 to 2011. They compared the number of people with a positive HCV antibody test with the number of people with a positive HCV RNA test. They examined the numbers by birth cohort, surveillance site and number of deaths. They also calculated the rates of newly reported HCV infection in 2011.</p> <p>There were 217,755 people with newly reported HCV, and among those, 107,209 (49.2%) only had a positive antibody test and 110,546 (50.8%) had a positive RNA test. In both groups, people born from 1945 to 1965 comprised most new infections. Across all of the sites, the rate of persons with newly reported HCV infection was 84.7 per 100,000 population.</p> <p>“HCV affects about 3 million Americans, most of whom are baby boomers,” CDC Director <strong>Thomas Frieden</strong>,<strong> MD</strong>,<strong> MPH</strong>, said during the media briefing. “The bottom line is that if you were born from 1945 to 1965, get tested, and if that test is positive, have follow-up testing. You may not remember everything that happened in the ’60s and ’70s, but your liver does.”</p> <div class="mug right"><img width="90" height="120" alt="Thomas R. 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