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An effective vaccine is the next logical step in the battle against hepatitis C. HealthMaker Christopher O'Brien, MD offers his perspective on the development of such an advancement in this video.
I'm very much an optimist, I'm so not sure I'm an optimist on the vaccine quite yet, the virus is very good at mutating its surface and developing resistance to everything that we've tried so far. I may be wrong, but that's going to be a little bit more of a difficult issue than the actual treatment of the disease, and unfortunately, once you get hepatitis C once, it doesn't protect you against getting it again, you can get it again a week later, get treated again, get it a third time, so there is still unmet need for a vaccine.
Christopher O'Brien, MD, is chief of clinical hepatology and research at the Center for Liver Diseases. O'Brien received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
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