OraSure welcomes US plan for routine baby boomer hepatitis C testing
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hopes to change hepatitis C testing guidelines to include all baby boomers, a move that has been welcomed by diagnostics company OraSure Technologies. The CDC has issued draft guidelines proposing that all people born between 1945 and 1965 get a one-time test for the hepatitis C virus (HCV); current guidelines only recommend testing of at-risk individuals.
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