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- From: bhjelle@vaxine.unm.edu (Brian Hjelle)
- Subject: Re: Hepatis C
- Message-ID: <+tnm29c@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:39:29 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <19920729.053019.699@almaden.ibm.com>
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- In article <19920729.053019.699@almaden.ibm.com> chcho@vnet.ibm.com ( C. Cho ) writes:
- >I like to know what is best for curing chronic Hepatitis C
- >except Interferon.
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- To my knowledge alpha interferon is the only treatment for hepatitis
- caused by hepatitis B or C. It is far from a "cure" however.
-
- >I also like to know how one is infected.
-
- Some got it from transfusion, some from using IV drugs and
- sharing needles. The plurality of infected persons got HCV
- via an "unknown" route. To many of us, that implies sexual
- spread but in most cases sexual spread is hard to demostrate
- prospectively.
-
- Brian
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