More than 170 million people worldwide are chronic carriers of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), but there is no therapeutic vaccine currently available for treating this infection. Persistent HCV infection results in chronic active hepatitis which may lead to progressive liver disease. Current treatment strategies are expensive, have substantial side effects,...

Noroviruses (also known as Norwalk viruses) are believed to cause approximately 90% of epidemic nonbacterial outbreaks of gastroenteritis worldwide and may be responsible for 50% of all foodborne outbreaks of gastroenteritis in the US. The CDC estimates that up to 200,000 children under the age of 5 die of norovirus infection in developing countries...