Hepatitis C vaccine could be rolled out within five years, says Nobel Prize winner who discovered virus

(European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) A vaccine to protect against infection with hepatitis C could be in use within 5 years, says Professor Sir Michael Houghton, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology along with three other scientists for discovering the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 1989. Sir Michael will discuss the development of a vaccine in a special presentation at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
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