This map shows where people with hepatitis C live in the US — and it points to some distressing trends
While treatments are available to cure people of hepatitis C, there are roughly 3.9 million people with past or current infections.
HepVu, a new project run by Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the pharmaceutical company Gilead, maps out which states have the highest prevalence of the disease.
It’s the same group that runs AIDSVu, a similar project that has been mapping out HIV by county since 2010 to get a better sense of the epidemic.
Hepatitis C is an infection that can lead to serious liver problems if left untreated.
The new site maps out how many people were living with hepatitis C in 2010 as well as how many deaths related to hepatitis C occurred in 2014. Here’s what the researchers found.
Here’s what the map looks like, hovered over Tennessee. HepVu’s data comes from the CDC, Dr. Patrick Sullivan, the project’s lead researcher, told Business Insider.
This is the first time there have been state-by-state estimates on hepatitis C, and it’s based off data from an academic paper published Wednesday. Here, HepVu mapped out the estimated number of people who had hepatitis C either in the past or present in 2010. Darker orange states have higher numbers of people living with hepatitis C.
Source: Clinical Infectious Disease
The data also looked at the number of cases per 100,000 people. Sullivan said he’d noticed the Southern region (Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, etc.) was being disproportionately affected by hepatitis C compared with the Midwest and the Northeast.
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