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Scientist Who Discovered Hepatitis C Has Now Discovered Possible Vaccine →

medicalstate:

The word “poetic” could not have been a more apt description for this story. Michael Houghton from the University of Alberta, who led a team of scientists to the discovery of Hepatitis C in 1989 announced earlier today that he has discovered the vaccine. With the diversity of hepatitis C strains, it was long thought to be impossible to develop a vaccine that could target all of them. Ten years of research and development has led to this discovery. 

As Houghton admits, there are still more tests to be run to check its efficacy and safety but so far the vaccine candidate is showing great promise.

Did you know that Hepatitis C is four times more common than HIV in the United States? Also, 3-4% of the world’s population lives with chronic Hep C, so this would be a pretty fucking big deal.

(Source: who.int)

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