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The Insidious Spread of A Killer Virus : Hundreds of millions are infected with the stealth virus. Most don't know it.(Statistical Data Included)
Doctors have told Saeed Taha that he has only weeks to live. The 48-year-old electrician is sprawled on a Cairo hospital bed with tubes connected, seemingly, to every major vein and artery. A decade ago he was diagnosed with hepatitis C. Overcome with fatigue, the father of three quit his job and spent his life's savings on interferon, one of two drugs approved to fight the virus. But it didn't help. "Don't believe what is said about medicine and doctors," he says. "In this disease nothing makes a difference."
On the next bed lies Abdullah El-Shahhat, 70, who was diagnosed four months ago but already displays the swollen legs and belly characteristic of liver ...
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