Hepatitis C Here's an article in the Economist on the fight against Hepatitis C. The blood disease has 170m victims worldwide, compared to HIV's 42m -- however, because AIDS kills 3m annually, compared 500,000 by the HCV, the alarms aren't the same. Nevertheless, at those numbers, HCV is still an epidemic.

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