To the 2-drug team to combat the virus deadlier than HIV
THE Hepatitis C virus has infected over 170 million people worldwide which is four times the number of hiv infected people. India, alone, has three million cases. The existing treatment is a combination of two drugs: interferon and ribavirin, which together prevent the virus from replicating. But the success rate of the prevailing two-drug combination is less than 50 per cent because it does not completely cure. It only slows the progression of liver damage; the combinations
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/add-telaprevir
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/rohini-rangarajan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/medical-research
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drugs
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hepatitis
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/viral-diseases
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
