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1 in 30 baby boomers living with disease and don't know

11/7/2017

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BY Kumasi Aaron  ABC Action News   WFTS Tampa Bay
Posted 5:49 PM, Oct 24, 2017

It's a disease that kills more people a year than HIV. Yet, millions of people in the U.S. are living with it and don't know. We're talking about Hepatitis C, and baby boomers are 5 times more likely than any other group to have it.     
Stella Armenta just celebrated her birthday.
"Yeah it's going to be a good year," Armenta says.
It's a day she didn't know if she'd be here to see this time last year.
 
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"I started feeling tired and I started to swell a little bit around my belly," Armenta remembers.
Armenta went to the ER trying to find out what was causing these symptoms. And wasn't prepared for her diagnosis.
"I felt like I got hit in the head when they said you got Hepatitis C," Armenta says. "I was like me, how in the world?"
Hepatitis C is a virus that can slowly damage the liver. It's spread by blood to blood contact, like IV drug use and transfusions. And the Centers for Disease Control says 1 in 30 baby boomers has the virus and don't even know it.

​"I just thought well I wasn't a drug user. I never was like you know dirty bathrooms and stuff where they say you can get stuff," Armenta says. "I was always just regular mom and working person."
But Armenta had a hysterectomy, and blood transfusion in the 80's. Hep C wasn't discovered until 1989, and donated blood wasn't screened for the virus until 1992.
TO CONTINUE READING:​ http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/1-in-30-baby-boomers-living-with-disease-and-don-t-know
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