By Ethan Covey
Rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV), which has been shown to disproportionately affect American Indian/Alaska Native people, have decreased in Alaska, according to a newly published CDC report.
However, even with recent declines, HCV rates among Alaskan adults remain more than twice that of national levels (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74[10]:161-166).
“More than 2 million people in the U.S. have hepatitis C, with recent increases noted in association with injection drug