We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation. I think the pharmaceutical industry has realized that hepatitis C is a very common problem, and they're now pouring the resources into it that they poured into HIV and AIDS some years ago. I think it will be a few years before we see the first of those drugs, though. But, most patients with hepatitis C can easily afford to wait the five years. Again, hepatitis C is a disease that does its worst damage over 20 or 30 years, so for somebody to have to wait five years for other treatments to come along, it's not the end of the world.
Most people can afford that wait in terms of their health.
Not too much bad will happen in that time. You can't eliminate the virus. It cannot reverse. It is still possible in some patients to treat the virus at that stage and eliminate it and therefore the liver disease is less likely to progress. The liver is not able to keep up with its normal functions.