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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
43•stevekemp•57m ago

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jmclnx•15m ago
Good news for England.

Thanks to RFKjr and friends, we know what country will be one of the last to do so. Or even worse, the US could end up being a reservoir for HepC.

stevenwoo•6m ago
My reading of the article was aggressive response by single payer healthcare (i.e. NHS) is responsible so that would be almost impossible politically in USA as long as senate exists on top of non scientific medical authorities.
renegade-otter•4m ago
The Senate? He just issued an executive order overriding all science. It's a total farce at this point.
alistairSH•9m ago
Interesting that it's just England (and not Scotland, Wales, or NI). I realize they all have independent NHSs, but still would assume a program like this would rolled out across all the constituent countries.
beejiu•2m ago
Each country also has their own Public Health bodies, so pretty much everything related to health is devolved
iLoveOncall•5m ago
Literally nothing in the article points to it being eliminated, only reaching a target of diagnosing 90% of the cases, which doesn't do anything to eliminate it when a large number of cases comes from drug users which are unlikely to care very much about it.
vlovich123•2m ago
> The target of treating 80% of all known cases has already been met, and deaths from the virus have fallen by 36% in the last decade, just short of what is needed by 2030. Taking antiviral tablets for 8 to 12 weeks can cure more than 95% of cases.

So indeed diagnosing the cases is leading directly to deaths prevented.

renegade-otter•5m ago
Good for you. We get explosive diarrhea as the prize in the States. Wanna trade?
kandros•4m ago
My brain kept reading Erlang and I was pretty confusing
zelphirkalt•4m ago
Just to understand this: When someone says "country England", do they mean "country" like in "nation", considering England a separate nation, or is it a lapse and they mean UK? Is England usually referred to as a country, or just part of a country?

I usually think of a country as equal to a nation, and as far as I know, Wales and Scotland have not split off yet? Is the term "country" not actually that sharply defined?

llm_nerd•2m ago
England is a country, and if you're reading this on the BBC they most certainly are using the correct terminology.

It is not a sovereign country, but instead is a part of the constituent country the UK.

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