Many Homeless May Harbor Hepatitis C

<p>MONDAY, Jun 18 (<span>HealthDay News</span>) — Nearly 27 percent of homeless
adults in <span>Los Angeles</span> might have <span>hepatitis C</span>, and scarcely half don’t know
they have a potentially <span>deadly infection</span>, researchers say.</p>
<p><span>Hepatitis C virus</span> can destroy a liver and lead to a liver transplant.
Recent investigate shows that it kills some-more <span>American adults</span> than AIDS.</p>
<p>For a study, researchers surveyed 534 homeless adults, many of them
black men, between Jun 2003 and Feb 2004. </p>
<p>Tests suggested that 26.7 percent of a investigate participants were
infected with a hepatitis C pathogen — a rate some-more than 10 times higher
than a 2 percent rate in a ubiquitous U.S. population. Of a infected
people in a study, 46 percent did not know they had hepatitis C.</p>
<p>Less than 3 percent of those w...