He did not say that the test does nothing to help patients live longer.

That is in part because patients often do not live very long.

However most patients lived at just 170m above sea level.

Thanks to a better understanding and management of the disease, today, patients can live into their 50s or beyond.

They say that the patient lives six hours, sometimes eight.

Most patients do not live more than a year after diagnosis.

How long the infected patients can live we simply don't know.

Even when not cured, many patients may live for a long time.

He notes that today, most patients live to see their 40th birthday.

The drug is available in some parts of England, but not necessarily where his patients live.