New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by rconti on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:44PM (#15314668)

This is being downvoted to oblivion but I'm not sure if it's true or not; hopefully someone can weigh in before it disappears.

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Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by anovikov on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:01PM (#15314814)

Well hepatitis C wasn't and isn't easily curable, but i guess awareness of it was pretty low.

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Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by jjtheblunt on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:23PM (#15314991)

Is a stronger statement that hepatitis C is NOT curable, as it's a retroviral infection, thereby rewriting host DNA? [ Edit: i'd remembered incorrectly from decades ago: it's an RNA virus ]

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Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by kens on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:15PM (#15315870)

>hepatitis C is NOT curable, as it's a retroviral infection

Hepatitis C isn't a retrovirus, so I don't understand what you're saying.

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Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by matthewmacleod on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:37PM (#15315578)

To be clear, hepatitis C now has a 95+% cure rate with modern treatments.

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Re:New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains by henrikschroder on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:25PM (#15315948)

There's a cure for Hepatitis C since 2015.

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