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Health Officials Recommend Baby Boomers Test for Hep C

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith
Published July 31, 2017 at 11:21 AM CDT
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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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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. 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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