And a company called Romark Laboratories has come out of nowhere with data on an unheralded anti-parasite drug that seems effective on one hep C strain.

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The government has embarked on a mass vaccination programme against the "C" strain.

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Liz Morgan-Lewis, a spokeswoman for the HPA, said it was hard to know how prevalent the new strain of C.difficile was, because comprehensive data was not available.

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Interferon and other drugs work on less than half of the people with the strain of hepatitis C most common in this country.

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Phoenix was without C Jermaine O'Neal because of a calf strain.

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