Hepatitis C Infection in Children

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Abstract
Recent data indicate that an estimated 2.7 million people in the United States are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV).1 Hepatitis C has become the most common reason for liver transplantation and has been called the silent epidemic in numerous articles in the news media. Transfusion-associated HCV infection has become rare since blood-donor screening was initiated in 1990; the risk has decreased from 0.45 percent to 0.001 percent per unit of blood transfused.2 Nonetheless, many people were infected through transfusion, and some were infants or young children at the time of infection. In the United States, testing for HCV . . .