News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains. Parent comment

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 ]
[ Parent | on HN ]
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]