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Health Officials Recommend Baby Boomers Test for Hep C

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith
Published July 31, 2017 at 12:21 PM EDT
COURTESY: World Hepatitis Alliance
Credit COURTESY: World Hepatitis Alliance
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COURTESY: World Hepatitis Alliance

WORLD HEPATITIS DAY:  Hepatitis “C”  is an infection that  attacks the  liver quietly for decades  often without  symptoms.   Today is World  Hepatitis  Day and health officials are using it as a  reminder for  people to  consider testing  for the  disease.  The  U.S. Preventive  Services Task Force recommends  that if  you’re  a Baby Boomer,  born between  1945  and 1965,  you should  get tested  for Hepatitis  C.  State  Health officials explain that many  Americans have  the potentially  life-threatening disease  and don't  even know  it. To learn more about Hepatitis C and other forms of this disease,  go to the website:    

http://worldhepatitisday.org/en            

Hepatitis comes in many forms and is transmitted in different ways.
Credit COURTESY: World Hepatitis Alliance
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COURTESY: World Hepatitis Alliance
Hepatitis comes in many forms and is transmitted in different ways.

WORLD HEPATITIS DAY: Hepatitis “C” is an infection that attacks the liver quietly for decades often without symptoms.

Copyright 2017 Red River Radio
Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.
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