The vaccine, the brainchild of Dr. Louis Picker and Dr. Klaus Frueh, has been two decades in the making as the scientists have toiled to come up with a drug to fight the tricky virus.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT KARINA TAYLOR WORKS WITH KLAUS FRUH ON HIS MALARIA VACCINE AT THE OHSU VACCINE AND GENE THERAPY INSTITUTE./OHSU/KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF
SB 367 will allow an easier trade of information between physicians when a corrections officer comes into contact with an inmate’s bodily fluid to know if the prisoner carried Hepatitis C or HIV. But a discussion about the risks of HIV and Hep C painted the picture that the prison workers must be quarantined even though their real chance of transmission is low.