Figure 3.1 ¨C Acute Hepatitis C: Number of Cases & Estimated Infections

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During 2023, the number of reported cases of acute hepatitis C was 4,966, which corresponds to 69,000 estimated infections after adjusting for case underascertainment and underreporting.1
CDC 2023 Hepatitis C Surveillance Report

Number of reported cases* and estimated infections† of acute hepatitis C — United States, 2016–2023

Figure 3.1 Data
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Source: CDC, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System.

* Reported confirmed cases. For the case definition, see .

† The number of estimated viral hepatitis infections was determined by multiplying the number of reported cases that met the classification criteria for a confirmed case by a factor that adjusted for underascertainment and underreporting. The 95% bootstrap confidence intervals for the estimated number of infections are displayed in the Appendix.

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  • 1. Klevens RM, Liu S, Roberts H, et al. . Am J Public Health 2014;104:482. PMC3953761.