Yesterday, we reported on the rapidly growing impact of Hepatitis C on New Hampshire. Hepatitis C kills about 10,000 people a year in the U-S, about the same number as die from AIDS. But unlike with AIDS, the death toll from this virus is expected to triple in the next ten years. That increase has little to do with the spread of the disease today. It is due almost entirely to infections that took place two and three decades ago. That 20 to 30 year gap is important because the types of people who got infected in the past are different from the people who get infected today.
NHPR's Jon Greenberg reports.
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