by Amelia Ferrell Knisely | Charleston Gazette-Mail
A new case of hepatitis C was reported nearly every eight hours in Kanawha county last year.
The number of men and women diagnosed in 2018 with the infectious disease soared in the months after the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department closed its public syringe exchange earlier that same year.
Amelia Ferrell Knisely is a corps member with Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project. Reach her at [email protected], 304-348-4886 or follow @ameliaknisely on Twitter.
