HCV in Children
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Although the prevalence of chronic HCV is lower in children than adults, an estimated 5 million children worldwide have active HCV infection (Gower, 2014). Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected between 2003 and 2010 indicates that 0.2% of 6to 11-year-olds (31,000 children) and 0.4% of 12to 19-year-olds (101,000 adolescents) in the US are chronically infected with HCV (Denniston, 2014).
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