(Class for All Levels ~ 2.0 hours) We are in the midst of an explosion of emerging viruses from yellow fever to dengue to epstein-barr to Ebola Zaire. One of the most pervasive is hepatitis C that now infects 500 million people worldwide. This class lools at the world of emerging viruses, their unique genomic intelligence, ones to be aware of as herbalists, and explores hepatitis C and the elegance of its treatment with herbal medicines.