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  1. Many prisons ban books about tattoos, and even art books containing designs that someone could conceivably #tattoo. This is because tattoos in prison often lead to #HepatitusB, #HepatitisC, or other deadly infections. However, a prison in #Missouri is taking a different approach to preventing tattoo-related infections. It is teaching incarcerated people to engage in safe tattooing. After their release, they will be able to work as licensed tattoo artists.

    whro.org/2026-06-22/prison-tat

  2. Many prisons ban books about tattoos, and even art books containing designs that someone could conceivably #tattoo. This is because tattoos in prison often lead to #HepatitusB, #HepatitisC, or other deadly infections. However, a prison in #Missouri is taking a different approach to preventing tattoo-related infections. It is teaching incarcerated people to engage in safe tattooing. After their release, they will be able to work as licensed tattoo artists.

    whro.org/2026-06-22/prison-tat

  3. AbbVie Announces European Commission Approval of MAVIRET® (Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir) for People with Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection

    MAVIRET® (glecaprevir/pibrentasvir) is now approved in the European Union for the treatment of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV)…
    #Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #AbbVie #antiviral #chronicHCVinfection #HCVinfection #hepatitisC #MAVIRET #TheEuropeanUnion
    europesays.com/europe/77996/

  4. On this day in #NobelPrize awarded to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice for their discovery of #HepatitisC

  5. On this day in #NobelPrize awarded to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice for their discovery of #HepatitisC

  6. Heute ist #WeltHepatitisTag. Auf unserem Portal mit evidenzbasierten, allgemein verständlichen Gesundheitsinformationen könnt ihr euch sowohl über #HepatitisB (gesundheitsinformation.de/hepa) als auch über #HepatitisC (gesundheitsinformation.de/hepa) in Ruhe informieren, ohne Angstmacherei, ohne Werbung usw. Zu Hepatitis C gibt es auch zwei Erfahrungsberichte.

    (Bildquelle: BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)

  7. Heute ist #WeltHepatitisTag. Auf unserem Portal mit evidenzbasierten, allgemein verständlichen Gesundheitsinformationen könnt ihr euch sowohl über #HepatitisB (gesundheitsinformation.de/hepa) als auch über #HepatitisC (gesundheitsinformation.de/hepa) in Ruhe informieren, ohne Angstmacherei, ohne Werbung usw. Zu Hepatitis C gibt es auch zwei Erfahrungsberichte.

    (Bildquelle: BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)

  8. ¡Información que salva vidas! 🚨 Conoce las verdades, mitos y cómo detectar a tiempo la Hepatitis C. Tu salud es prioridad, ¡infórmate y actúa! #HepatitisC #Salud #Prevención #DetecciónTemprana

    Más aquí: zurl.co/9ykXA

  9. "The [Division of #Viral #Hepatitis] Laboratory Branch had the highest degree of viral hepatitis expertise of any #PublicHealth laboratory in the world," wrote Scott Becker, the assn's CEO. "Their loss eliminated critical national testing services that do not exist anywhere else within the #HHS agencies."

    As of April 16, the assn had not received a response from #RFKJr, Becker said.

    #Trump #Musk #DOGE #cuts #idiocracy #kakistocracy #science #medicine #disease #HepatitisC #virus #outbreak #law

  10. "The [Division of #Viral #Hepatitis] Laboratory Branch had the highest degree of viral hepatitis expertise of any #PublicHealth laboratory in the world," wrote Scott Becker, the assn's CEO. "Their loss eliminated critical national testing services that do not exist anywhere else within the #HHS agencies."

    As of April 16, the assn had not received a response from #RFKJr, Becker said.

    #Trump #Musk #DOGE #cuts #idiocracy #kakistocracy #science #medicine #disease #HepatitisC #virus #outbreak #law

  11. The #hepatitis C #virus, which is spread through contact w/infected blood & can lead to #deadly liver #cancer, is notoriously hard to identify. But if anyone could understand what was #happening in FL, it would be the Division of #ViralHepatitis in the #CDC's HQ.
    Using samples from the lab's collection of nearly 1M frozen specimens, scientists helped make the initial discovery of the #HepatitisC virus in the 1980s. In 2020, that #research was awarded the #NobelPrize in #Medicine.
    #Trump #science

  12. The #hepatitis C #virus, which is spread through contact w/infected blood & can lead to #deadly liver #cancer, is notoriously hard to identify. But if anyone could understand what was #happening in FL, it would be the Division of #ViralHepatitis in the #CDC's HQ.
    Using samples from the lab's collection of nearly 1M frozen specimens, scientists helped make the initial discovery of the #HepatitisC virus in the 1980s. In 2020, that #research was awarded the #NobelPrize in #Medicine.
    #Trump #science

  13. In the middle of a #hepatitis #outbreak, #CDC shutters the one lab that could help

    After people started testing positive for #HepatitisC in a coastal #Florida town in December, state ofcls collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice & mailed them straight to the CDC in ATL, GA.

    #Trump #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #cuts #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #USpol #science #medicine #disease
    npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-53551

  14. In the middle of a #hepatitis #outbreak, #CDC shutters the one lab that could help

    After people started testing positive for #HepatitisC in a coastal #Florida town in December, state ofcls collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice & mailed them straight to the CDC in ATL, GA.

    #Trump #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #cuts #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #USpol #science #medicine #disease
    npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-53551

  15. 💪 ■ Los expertos alertan de la prueba que deberían hacerse de inmediato los nacidos entre 1945 y 1975 ■ Se recomienda que se aseguren de que no han contraído la hepatitis C, de la existe la posibilidad de reinfección.
    huffingtonpost.es/life/salud/l

    #salud #enfermedades #hepatitisc

  16. 💪 ■ Los expertos alertan de la prueba que deberían hacerse de inmediato los nacidos entre 1945 y 1975 ■ Se recomienda que se aseguren de que no han contraído la hepatitis C, de la existe la posibilidad de reinfección.
    huffingtonpost.es/life/salud/l

    #salud #enfermedades #hepatitisc

  17. @achimreinke
    Wie schön, daß ich dies noch erleben darf. Leider erst jetzt richtig. Habe als eine der Ersten Anf d 80er davon mitbekommen in meinem Umfeld. Machte mir ganz schön Angst, und ich stieß auf taube Ohren in meinem Umfeld. Aids lief "einigermaßen" glimpflich in meinem Umfeld ab. Mehr Leute hab ich an die Stille Epedemie von #HepatitisC, Alkohol und harte Drogen verloren 😥

  18. *They do #charity work in several #GlobalSouth nations*

    #MakeMedicinesAffordable (MMA) believes it is every person’s right to access the treatment they need, and that intellectual barriers (IP) preventing this must be removed.

    MMA works to bring down the price of #HIV, #TB, #HepatitisC, and potential #COVID19 #medicines, specifically in middle-income countries (MICs). The majority of people living with HIV are from MICs. The income classification of these countries means they are routinely left out of schemes, yet are far from able to pay what monopoly holders demand. This forces countries to ration.

    Extortionate price tags result in choices. The ‘choice’ to sell your house or go without meds, or a government’s ‘choice’ of which citizens to treat if you can’t treat them all.

    No country should be forced to decide WHO to treat. They must treat EVERYONE.

    The MMA campaign is led by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition #ITPC and partners, made up of civil society organizations from over 20 countries. They include patients, lawyers, #health experts and activists, all choosing, instead, to challenge the IP measures that benefit profit but not people.

    makemedicinesaffordable.org/

    #Medical #Nonprofit #HealthCare

  19. *They do #charity work in several #GlobalSouth nations*

    #MakeMedicinesAffordable (MMA) believes it is every person’s right to access the treatment they need, and that intellectual barriers (IP) preventing this must be removed.

    MMA works to bring down the price of #HIV, #TB, #HepatitisC, and potential #COVID19 #medicines, specifically in middle-income countries (MICs). The majority of people living with HIV are from MICs. The income classification of these countries means they are routinely left out of schemes, yet are far from able to pay what monopoly holders demand. This forces countries to ration.

    Extortionate price tags result in choices. The ‘choice’ to sell your house or go without meds, or a government’s ‘choice’ of which citizens to treat if you can’t treat them all.

    No country should be forced to decide WHO to treat. They must treat EVERYONE.

    The MMA campaign is led by the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition #ITPC and partners, made up of civil society organizations from over 20 countries. They include patients, lawyers, #health experts and activists, all choosing, instead, to challenge the IP measures that benefit profit but not people.

    makemedicinesaffordable.org/

    #Medical #Nonprofit #HealthCare

  20. On this day in #NobelPrize awarded to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice for their discovery of #HepatitisC

  21. On this day in #NobelPrize awarded to Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice for their discovery of #HepatitisC

  22. CW: Cost at $78. Price at $80,000

    Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it.

    “Normally you have a virus, and your body fights it off or your body fights it to a standstill and you just have it forever, basically, and hope it remains dormant more or less,” Laufer said. “The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.”

    The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill.

    “Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.”

    So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong.

    “It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?”

    The above lines were written for paid subscribers and are excerpt from #404Media 404media.co/right-to-repair-fo @law

    #pharma #pharmacy #pharmaceutics #Hepatitis #HepatitisC #cure #illness #health #medicine #DIY #pirating #counterfeit #free #patents #research #money #law #FederalLaw #intellectualProperty

  23. CW: Cost at $78. Price at $80,000

    Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it.

    “Normally you have a virus, and your body fights it off or your body fights it to a standstill and you just have it forever, basically, and hope it remains dormant more or less,” Laufer said. “The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.”

    The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill.

    “Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.”

    So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong.

    “It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?”

    The above lines were written for paid subscribers and are excerpt from #404Media 404media.co/right-to-repair-fo @law

    #pharma #pharmacy #pharmaceutics #Hepatitis #HepatitisC #cure #illness #health #medicine #DIY #pirating #counterfeit #free #patents #research #money #law #FederalLaw #intellectualProperty