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China Makes Progress in Hepatitis C Vaccine Research
Chinese researchers have designed a compound vaccine after four years of tests on mice, rabbits and monkeys, and found it is resistant to Hepatitis C.
A thesis on the research was recently published in the country' s leading scientific journal -- Chinese Science Bulletin.
The researchers, from Fudan University, No.1 Medical College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and a medical college in southwest China's Yunnan Province, have used gene engineering techniques in the development of the vaccine.
Hepatitis has prevailed for a long time and spread widely in the world, especially in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
But researchers said they still have a long way to go before the vaccine is applied to human beings.
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