A Hepatitis C Vaccine Could Lower Transmission Risk in Drug Users (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A Hepatitis C Vaccine Could Lower Transmission Risk in Drug Users (2 of 2)

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Illustration of hepatitis C transmission via a shared syringe showing how the virus-contaminated blood (red) mixes with the drug (blue) while being injected by an infected individual (A-B). A small amount of the infected mixture remains when a second naïve person uses the same syringe (C-D). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 11 July, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Major at Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, MD; and colleagues was titled, 'Modeling of patient virus titers suggests that availability of a vaccine could reduce hepatitis C virus transmission among injecting drug users.'

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Alexander Gutfriand, Harel Dahari, Marian Major

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