Emerging Diseases
Hepatitis C Virus And Rift Valley Fever Epidemics
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 20th, 2002
by Michelle Marble, senior medical writer - "Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an extremely prevalent infection in the United States population," stated Beth P. Bell, MD, MPH, National Center for Infectious Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia. "Liver disease is the eighth disease-related cause of death in the U.S., and 1.8% of the population has been infected with HCV, the leading indication for liver transplants."
Bell was one of several speakers December 18, 2001, at the symposium "P/Re/Emerging Pathogens I: Viruses" held at the 41st Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Chicago,...
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