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全世界每年死于乙型肝炎的人达200万,在存活下来的患者中,约有90%的人成为病毒携带者,其中有些人后来死于肝癌。目前还缺乏根治乙型肝炎的有效方法,在先进国家里使用干扰素证明疗效较好,但对乙型肝炎广为流行的第三界国家来说,这种疗法太昂贵了。不过,现在出现了一线希望。印度和美国的研究人员对一种古老的草药疗法进行了试验,二千多年来,一直有人使用叶下珠属(Phyllauthus)的某些植物来医治黄疸病。研究人员在试验中给37名乙肝病毒携
About 2 million people die each year from hepatitis B in the world each year, and about 90% of those surviving are virus carriers, some of whom subsequently die of liver cancer. Currently, there is still no effective way to cure hepatitis B, which has been proved to be effective in the advanced countries using interferon. However, it is too expensive for the third world countries where hepatitis B is prevalent. However, there is now a glimmer of hope. Researchers in India and the United States have tested an ancient herbal remedy that has been used by some of the Phyllauthus species for the treatment of jaundice for more than two thousand years. Researchers in the experiment to 37 hepatitis B virus