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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”
This year’s Nobel prize is awarded to three scientists who have made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world.
The Nobel Assembly said in a statement on Monday that the three scientists "made seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus."
While announcing the prize in Stockholm on Monday, the Nobel Committee stated that the trio’s work has helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained by the hepatitis A and B viruses.
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