between 1945 and 1965 to get tested for hepatitis c. so dr. siegel, first of all, what is it, how do you get it, and if i go to the doctor, do they automatically test me for hepatitis c? i would test you, and here we gowith the baby boomers again, you and me are going to get tested for this. i don t want to give away our birth dates, but we re baby boomers. it s a virus and it s most easily transmitted by intraveno intravenous transfers. over 2 million are baby boomers. why? because we didn t know what it was until the early 1990s. we called it non-a, non-b. we didn t get a test for it. people got it from blood transfusions. during the sexual revolution. it can be transmitted sexually. transmitted blood to blood. when you have it and if you know you have it, this is why the centers for disease control is
warnings for baby boomers, urging everyone who was born between 1945 and 1965 to get tested for hepatitis c. so dr. siegel, first of all, what is it, how do you get it, and if i go to the doctor, do they automatically test me for hepatitis c? i would test you, and here we go with the baby boomers again, and you and me are going to get tested for this. i don t want to give away our birth dates, but we re baby boomers. it s a virus and it s most easily transmitted by intravenous transfers. over 2 million are baby boomers. why? because we didn t know what it was until the early 1990s. we called it non-a, non-b. we didn t get a test for it. people got it from blood transfusions. they got it during the sexual revolution. it can be transmitted sexually. transmitted blood to blood. when you have it and if you know you have it, this is why the centers for disease control is calling it an unrecognized
this is a huge change for u.s. task force compared to 2004 that they said there s no evidence. so why now, though, dr. siegel, are we seeing rising cases as well 6 heof hepatitis ? and what about a or b? help tooits c, 3.9 million people, it s on the rise pf liver cancer on the rise. liver failure requiring transplant. i m so proud of the u.s. preventive services task force, who has blown it with tsa and with mammograms finally coming out right on something because helptight sis a big wteste fou it was hepatitis c. before we used to call it non-a, non-b. since we didn t have the assay, people got blood that weren t screened for it. people used drugs, they weren t screened for it, sexual activity, they weren t screened for. so a lot of people are hiding this and don t know they have it. 75% of the people who have this in the united states are in our baby boomer generation. one-time screening, it doesn t cost very much. about $25. your annual physical. absolutely. well worth doin