Boonies

Hi Kackles, I think I read the same information you did. It seems promising, but still has a long road ahead most likely. I like the idea that it is based on naturally produced substances in the body. This could be of great help in our fight of HCV. I watched a documentary the other day on the Aids virus and the Black plague Bacteria. They both seem to work in the same way to each other against the bodies Antibodies. It was a gay male who had repeatedly been exposed to HIV and never caught it that took these researchers done this path. Of course HCV attacks the liver, so it is different in that aspect. They are the same from what I could find, in that HCV also, just gets under the top layer of the cell. This keeps the cell looking normal to the body, allowing the HCV to multiple until the cell is destoyed and the virus disperses. They traced the decendants of people who survived the Black Plague and found as with people who dont' get Aids, they all have a mutated gene in their DNA. This has changed the Antibody cells to have a harder surface which keeps the virus out. I think this must be the inhibitor approach to treatments of infections. It gives the body a chance to clear infections on its own without playing hide and seek. From what I have read there is no cure for a virus yet, but there is for Bacteria. This is what worries me with current treatments for HCV, in that the immune system collapses. I am a 3e genotype which is common in Scotland and England which is said to be clearable between 50-60% with Tx. Lesser odds then I was first led to believe. The current vaccines for virus usually are based on a lesser form of a similar virus which builds up immunity. I just thought I would share my current understanding of what I have learned.