High incidence of HCV in US cities

Infection rates increased hepatitis C virus (HCV), by more than three times in four states caught in Alobalach Mountains region between 2006 and 2012, due to drug abuse by injection, especially in rural areas, according to what he said, health officials in the United States, Thursday.

According to a report, issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National data indicate the increasing infection Hepatitis rates (C), and concentrated injuries among people under thirty years of age who live in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee and Virginia and West Virginia.

In these four States alone it increased incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) increased by 364 per cent between 2006 and 2012, and about half of these cases (44.8 percent) among persons below the age of thirty.

Among the cases -alta researchers collect data are related to the risk factors Mahtmlh- 73.1 percent reported that they involved persons injecting drug users.

And it warned of centers that despite the fact that HIV infection rates are low at the moment in these four States, the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) raise concerns about the incidence of HIV infection, which is also transmitted through needles contaminated with the blood of an infected syringe.

She said that these results highlight the need to test to make sure the body free of infection of hepatitis C virus (HCV), with treatment and care of drug users in designated centers.

She added that centers around three million Americans are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), while infected by many without unwittingly, and cause chronic infections of the liver injury damaged or failure, cancer and even death.

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) viral infectious disease of the liver, is usually spread through the blood to the body enter.