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emerging viruses and sustainable medicineNewspaper reports of emerging viruses are in the news weekly. HIV that causes AIDS is the best known but hepatitis C is likely to cause more illness and death than HIV in the coming decades. As researchers at Baylor School of Medicine commented, "Hepatitis C is going to make the AIDS epidemic pale in comparison." These are only two, however, of the many emerging viruses that are coming to be a part of our lives. Long thought of only as enemies to the human species viruses are much more than that. Like bacteria, they are crucially important to life on Earth. At least 30 million viruses live in happy symbiosis with other life forms on Earth. They occupy a unique ecological niche, the landscape of DNA and RNA. And they do something amazing with it, they can snip of pieces of it and take it to other organisms and weave it into their DNA. Viruses actually intermingle the DNA of all life on Earth. And, in general they cause little disease. But, when the ecosystem of their host is disturbed they tend to jump species where they can cause severe disease. As people move into more and more ecosystems and disturb them more and more viruses are entering the human species. Hepatitis C is one of them. Hepatitis C (HCV) is, like most viral diseases, difficult to treat with pharmaceuticals. The prognosis is often grim 8-10 thousand people a year die from it. But herbal medicines have been found exceptionally effective in treating hepatitis viruses and hepatitis C liver disease. This book extensively reviews the herbal protocols of scores of clinicians who have successfully treated hepatitis C and triangulates that with historical herb usage in the treatment of liver disease, and hundreds of scientific clinical trials and study to find the most powerful herbs, dietary supplements, and foods for successfully treating hepatitis C. And finally the book explores how we can develop a different kind of relationship with hepatitis C and all viruses and develop an ecological sustainable medicine that reveres all life on Earth.