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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