{"id":649824,"date":"2026-10-18T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649824\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:12:08","slug":"short-course-antiviral-therapy-cures-acute-hepatitis-c-but-eight-weeks-may-be-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649824\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-course antiviral therapy cures acute hepatitis C, but eight weeks may be the floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioengineer.org news story<\/p>\n<p>A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s12985-026-03307-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Virology Journal<\/a> has brought together the scattered clinical evidence on treating acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with interferon-free, dual direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimens, and the headline finding is striking: across fourteen studies encompassing 1,078 treated patients, the pooled rate of sustained virological response at twelve weeks after therapy (SVR12) \u2014 the standard benchmark for cure \u2014 reached 97.7 percent. The analysis also delivers a nuanced message about treatment duration. Cure rates climbed steadily as courses lengthened, from under 85 percent at four weeks to above 99 percent at eight weeks, suggesting that while ultra-short therapy remains tempting, eight weeks may represent the practical minimum for reliably eradicating recently acquired infection.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news story <a href=\"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/short-course-antiviral-therapy-cures-acute-hepatitis-c-but-eight-weeks-may-be-the-floor\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bioengineer.org news story A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Virology Journal has brought together the scattered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-649824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}