LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Continuing his ongoing and public challenge to the most broadly accepted medical treatment regimen used to treat the exploding population of Americans carrying the Hepatitis C virus, Lloyd Wright, the author and publisher of the best-selling book "Triumph Over Hepatitis C," announced Monday that his text will be translated and published in China, Korea and Japan.
Wright, who in the book recounts the medical treatment that proved nearly fatal to him and then documents his subsequent development of an herbal-based regimen that cleared the disease from his body, self-published "Triumph Over Hepatitis C" in 1999. It is now in its ninth printing. Its companion book, "Hepatitis C Free," which contains more than 300 pages of testimonials from Hepatitis C sufferers, was published in 2002.
Since that time, the books have consistently ranked at or near the top of various best-seller lists in their specialty health-care categories. Both books are available at http://www.amazon.com and http://barnesandnoble.com, as well as through Wright's non-profit Triumph Over Hepatitis C organization, http://www.hepatitiscfree.com. Further information also is available toll free at 1-866-HEPCFREE (1-866-437-2373).
With growing attention focused on the disease in the United States, where some estimates put the number of infected Americans at more than 15 million and growing, dwarfing AIDs and other high-profile diseases, Hepatitis C is at endemic proportions in Asia, according to medical officials in that region of the world.
"But what's most important is that those diagnosed with the disease know that there is an alternative to the debilitating and ineffective interferon therapy now prescribed by the medical community," said Wright. "I know firsthand how interferon therapy does not work -- it nearly killed me -- and, likewise, I know, as do thousands of others I have documented, what does work."
Desperate sufferers of Hepatitis C, many in the chronic- and end-stages of the disease, have turned to Wright's books and his products to learn about and successfully treat the disease. With the translation of the books in Asia, and the much greater acceptance of herbal products to treat medical problems in that region of the world, Wright should prove to be a popular and credible authority during a speaking tour of those countries. Dates for the book tour are scheduled for September 2003.