First of all no intact Hep C virus has ever been found,...hence no vaccine development. They have only isolated genetic fragments. Two, no therapy can rid your body of the virus. The statement is ridiculous. Three, the mortality rates for treated and untreated are exactly the same. Mortality span is similar. All new drugs have significant side effects and these are no different. Ask anyone who has had to tolerate interferon and high dose steroids. Not pleasant.
“I’ve had no side effects,” Mr. DiFazio said. “I can do everything I want to do.”
Are his significant side effects still to come?
My husband was just diagnosed in November. We were shocked. My husband’s older brother was a drug addict and got him to try IV drugs when my brother was a teenager. My husband only did them a couple of times before he straightened out, and we are so in shock by this diagnosis.
His doctor is very hopeful of the new medication that will be approved hopefully in the next couple of years.
My husband may also have autoimmune hepatitis. If so, he can’t take the interfeuron.
Right now, my husband’s liver is in excellent shape. Good thing my hubby lived a straight and narrow life after his wilder teenage years.
There is an electron micrograph of a Hep C virus over on Wikipedia. There are also several Hep C vaccines in the pipeline.
I’ve had the Hep A and B vaccines. I’ve always been worried that there is no Hep C vaccine yet, since the risk factors for getting Hep C are pretty much the same as those for Hep A and B.