| hepatitis c infection in louisiana. | estimating a prevalence of 1.8% of hepatitis c in the general population, there are in louisiana about 81,000 individuals who have been infected with the hepatitis c virus. in 2002, the incidence of reported cases of acute hepatitis c was 2.2/100,000 versus 0.64 in the usa. the case register maintained by the louisiana office of public health has 22,000 cases. building up a register of hepatitis c past or present infections is an important tool that may be used to resolve some important question ... | 2005 | 16022276 |