"Expanded Hepatitis C Surveillance in a Rural State."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, held March 8-11, 1998, in Atlanta, Georgia, "Issue: Although hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is recognized as a serious public health problem in the United States, traditional reporting and surveillance methods have been inadequate in defining the epidemiology of this disease. Public health surveillance of HCV infection is problematic for a variety of reasons, including the infrequent incidence of symptomatic acute disease and variability in physician screening practices. Because of these difficulties, and others, most health departments have not established...

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