Commentary: A deadly but curable disease is thriving in LA’s jails. That’s unacceptable
by Mark Bunin Benor, Los Angeles Times
Apr 04, 2024
3 minutes
During my five years as a doctor in Los Angeles County’s jail system, I personally saw hundreds of patients with hepatitis C who were not being treated for the potentially deadly but curable disease. While hepatitis C treatment improved incrementally during my tenure, the system continues to fall woefully short of the sort of concerted effort that could dramatically reduce the toll of the infection within and beyond the jails.
Hepatitis C, a viral, blood-borne of inmates tested are positive. That suggests the number of people living with the virus in the nation’s largest jail system is likely in the thousands.
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