Hepatitis B Persuasive Speech

How wonderful our life would be, if all the impossible things that we dream of become real one day, and that dream would be possible through science and science made us realize that there are many things around us that we still don’t know and waiting to be discovered. Such as in the field of medicine, who would’ve taught that there is a new way to treat Hepatitis B that is much effective than Hepatitis B vaccine? Now, it is time to put an end to this impregnable disease. All of the advancement that we inherited from technology brought drastic changes in the society’s lifestyle. Thus, the human body became vulnerable and open to life-threatening diseases like Hepatitis B which is a liver infection cause by the hepatitis b virus and slayed almost 400 million people …show more content…
Finally, after knowing the true capabilities of the HBV to interrupt the signals required for the cellular process called apoptosis, wherein cells commit suicide to avoid the virus from spreading, and armed with this knowledge, the Australian Scientists from Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researched on how to interrupt those signaling pathways employed by the HBV. Thus, they were able to discover a potential cancer drug called Birinapant which has the ability to allow infected cells to undergo normal apoptosis. The potential drug Birinapant, is combined with the anti-viral drug Entecavir and this combination therapy is tested on the animal infected with Hepatitis B. And impressively they were able to cure the virus 100% of the time and found out that this combination therapy is twice as fast as the potential drug can do. Led with this success the researchers are now planning to conduct human trials with this new therapy in December. Alongside with the human trials, the researchers will continue their study about this new therapy whether it can also treat chronic diseases such as herpes or dengue