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This article may contain useful information but it has a misleading headline and does not give the whole picture...
"This ancient disease still kills 1 million people every year. - A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?"
First 👉 why the word "ancient"? It is irrelevant.🙄 Many human diseases have been around a long time.
Second 👉 #hepatitisB and #hepatitisC are NOT the same disease at all. One is a double-stranded #DNA virus and the other is a single-stranded #RNA virus. Conflating them just confuses the reader.
Third 👉 hepatitis B is a #VaccinePreventableDisease. The best way to deal with it is to VACCINATE people, not treat people that did not need to get it in the first place.
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-b/vaccination/index.html
This information is not new. There is no vaccine for hepatitis C, so #PublicHealth measures and #drug #treatment are the only options.