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What health strategies could help achieve hepatitis C elimination?
Kirby Institute, UNSW, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 The World Health Organization has set an ambitious target to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. Some countries, including Australia, have made good progress, but if elimination is to be achieved, existing health strategies need to be scaled up and targeted toward the people most at risk, according to new research from the Kirby...
Koala retrovirus leads scientists to discover ‘second immune system’
ABC Science, 12/10/2019 The retrovirus spreading through the koala population is bad news. But studies of the koala infection have led scientists to a surprising discovery: a “second immune system” in the species, according to research published on Saturday in the journal Cell. This system, which the researchers think exists in all mammals, has a role fighting off viruses that are in...