Because of the serious complications that can occur in some infected persons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that certain groups of high-risk individuals be tested for asymptomatic HCV infection
Which of the following groups are NOT included in their recommendations? A. Health care personnel who had been exposed to blood or body fluids as might have occurred following an accidental needle stick while drawing blood
B. Children born to HCV-infected mothers
C. Food service employees
D. Persons who have ever injected illegal drugs, even those who have injected only once and do not consider themselves drug users
E. Persons who received antihemophilic globulin or other clotting factor concentrates before 1987
C
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A) Increased hand tremor B) Constipation C) Urinary retention D) Dyskinesia