Scientists who helped identify Hepatitis C virus win 2020 Nobel Medicine Prize
Tashkent, Oct. 5 -- Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday (October 5) for work in identifying the Hepatitis C virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer.
The discoveries by American scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and British scientist Michael Houghton meant there was now a chance of eradicating the Hepatitis C virus completely, the Nobel assembly at Karolinska Institutet said in a statement upon awarding the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
The World Health Organization estimates 71 million people are infected with hepatitis C globally, which caused approximately 399,000 deaths in 2016.
While the Nobel awards will go ahead as planned this year, they have been overshadowe...
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