image: Equipment used by injecting drug users. Heroin is cooked in the cap above a flame. Cotton is inserted into the heroin inside the cap. Heroin is drawn into the syringe through the cotton. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 11 July, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Major at Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, MD; and colleagues was titled, 'Modeling of patient virus titers suggests that availability of a vaccine could reduce hepatitis C virus transmission among injecting drug users.' view more
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