Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Non-A Non-B Hepatitis ???? (New Discoveries) Message-ID: <1093@aecom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 23:33:36 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1093 Posted: Sat Jan 12 23:33:36 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 05:05:21 EST References: <156@sask.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 31 > Has anyone out there got info on non-a non-b hepatitis? E.G. comparing this > hepatitis relative to hepatitis-A. Better yet. Are there databases out > there that one can get this type of info from? Glad this came up. I was going to post the following eventually anyway, but now it seems relevant. Non-A non-B Hepatitis is a generic name for any type of hepatitis that can not be linked to either one of the two known viruses (i.e. A or B) It is currently the most common form of hepatitis world-wide and there have been no advances towards a vaccine in the absence of a known cause, although a third virus was detected. Recently, an article and paper appeared in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, entitled: ^(Dec 14 '84 252/22) International Findings point to Third Hepatitis Virus (article) Epidemic non-A non-B Hepatitis in Nepal (paper, p. 3140) It appears that a new virus, call it C, is a retrovirus (as is HTLV-3, the virus that causes AIDS) meaning that it has a different life cycle of normal viruses in that it becomes part of the cells it infects permanently and does not kill them, along with many other differences. I realize that this does not answer the question that was actually asked, but its something worth knowing. Perhaps looking at the references in the paper might provide a clue where to look, however. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!