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Hepatitis C Virus Prevention
Scientists at Health Protection Agency Center for Infections publish new data on hepatitis C virus prevention
July 14th, 2009
Researchers detail in 'Prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C in injecting drug users attending genitourinary medicine clinics,' new data in hepatitis C virus. "Surveillance reports and prevalence studies have indicated that injecting drug users (IDUs) contribute more to the hepatitis C epidemic in the United Kingdom than any other risk group. Information on both the prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C in IDUs is therefore essential to understanding the epidemiology of this infection," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report. "The prevalence of hepatitis C in specimens from the Unlinked Anonymous Prevalence Monitoring Programme collected in 1995, 1996,...
Source: World Disease Weekly (2009-07-14)
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