Carol L. Brosgart, MD

Hepatitis C virus infection is one of our nation’s most pressing public health concerns for infectious disease specialists and hepatologists. Not only did acute HCV infections increase 250% from 2010 to 2014, a recent report from the CDC shows that more people die of HCV in the United States than any other infectious disease, with a total 19,659 reported HCV–related deaths in 2014. Almost all of these deaths are due to the impact of chronic HCV on the liver (cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, liver transplantation, and/or hepatocellular carcinoma or primary liver cancer).