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Rebecca Voelker
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;280:125.

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A new collaboration to track the spread of hepatitis C may also protect the world from the development of covert biological weapons.

Coordinated by scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, which announced it recently, the project joins epidemiologists in New Mexico with researchers at the former Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory Chelyabinsk-70. Last month, the investigators began to gather data on the prevalence of hepatitis C in emergency patients at 3 hospitals in New Mexico and in 1 in Snezhinsk, Russia. In addition to providing blood samples for analysis, patients will complete questionnaires about potential risk factors for contracting hepatitis C.

The researchers hope that by posting the data on the Internet, the project will reveal new ways to stop the worldwide spread of hepatitis C, a chronic infection that can result in cirrhosis or liver cancer. At the same time, however, they believe the monitoring system . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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