Treating hepatitis C in chimpanzees used in former medical experiments

As adjacent relatives of humans, chimpanzees person sometimes been utilized successful biomedical experiments. They were instrumental successful the recognition of the hepatitis C virus: The then-mysterious pathogen was artificially injected into chimpanzees for study, starring to its eventual recognition successful 1989. Since then, treatments for humans person advanced, and hepatitis C tin present beryllium astir cured with medication. However, the aforesaid attraction has not been extended to chimpanzees.