image: 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.' view more
Credit: Alexander Gutfriand, Harel Dahari, Marian Major