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Millennium Essay
Nature 408, 141 (9 November 2000) | doi:10.1038/35041645
The sounds of silence
Robert C. Young1
For centuries, hepatitis has exacted a devastating worldwide toll, not only from the ravages of the disease itself, but in the later development of cirrhosis of the liver and the nearly always fatal primary liver cancer. Now, as the new millennium begins, that devastation is abating.
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