25 July 2017 - In 2014, when Greg Jefferys’s urine started smelling like dead meat, he knew there was something seriously wrong.

For weeks, Jefferys, an Australian then 60 years old, had felt fatigued and noticed that just a slight bump would leave a dark purple bruise on his skin. Blood tests revealed to Jefferys that he had chronic hepatitis C – a disease he’d never heard of.

At the time of his discovery, the only treatment available in Australia was an unpopular interferon-based therapy — unpopular because patients had to inject themselves in the stomach for nine months. The injections were painful and had potentially devastating side effects, including blindness and permanent liver damage.

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