Hepatitis C-like viruses identified in bats and rodents
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 14:20
in Biology & Nature
As many as one in 50 people around the world is infected with some type of hepacivirus or pegivirus, including up to 200 million with hepatitis C virus (HCV), a leading cause of liver failure and liver cancer. There has been speculation that these agents arose in wildlife and jumped species to infect humans; however, little was known about their distribution in other species.