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Researchers Clone Deadly Hepatitis C Virus
JULY 25, 1997
A newly cloned version of Hepatitis C virus will help researchers learn more
about the disease that kills some 8,000 Americans each year, a U.S. government
scientist said Thursday. In the United States, Hepatitis C is most common among
people who have used intravenous drugs and is transmitted through contact with
infected blood, although there have been cases of sexual transmission. A scientific
panel at the National Institutes of Health said in March that the U.S. death
toll from Hepatitis C is likely to triple in the next 10 to 20 years.
The research was reported in this week's edition of Science.
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