The Prometheus Liver

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The Hepatitis viruses are probably as old as humanity itself, since 1947 they are called as such, in 1967 discovers and describes to the Hepatitis B virus, and in 1989 the c and these viruses every day are eaten throughout the alphabet currently described Virus from A to H, they are so aggressive and murderous as Chinese gangs more bloodthirsty 14-KaratFong chin and others, are as Hepatropicas as the mythological Eagle that devoured the liver to Prometheus bound, they are so invisible that no one knows whether they are molecules or living beings. The 21st century and the third millennium loaded even on his back these old, damned and hepatropicos viruses, only Hepatitis C has infected 200 million people in the world the young writer Aeschylus picking up a very old story in Greece wrote the novel about Prometheus, the Eagle and the liver, 500 years BC, but that sounds so familiar to us. There he relates how this burly, kindly and beloved character Prometeo-rebelde and irreverent with the gods of Olympus, is punished by Zeus for having stolen light and have been delivered to the people out of the darkness, is taken to the distant and lonely Caucasus, is tied to an icy rock and exposed helpless to make an eagle, every morning opened you a gap in the abdomen and slowly ate you the liver to Pecks, task that the wild animal fulfilled with gusto, in the midst of the harrowing screams of pain from his victimin the cold nights the noble liver regenerated the next morning was again devoured by the beast, a ritual that repeated day after day, year after year, until that one day he went to that place his brother HERCULES (Heracles) who killed the animal of a crush, burly Titan was free, healed his wounds and returned to his people, into their daily activities… .