ABC News
Three scientists have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus,” the Nobel Committee announced Monday.
“Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice made seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus, Hepatitis C virus,” the Nobel Committee said in a statement announcing the winners. “Prior to their work, the discovery of the Hepatitis A and B viruses had been critical steps forward, but the majority of blood-borne hepatitis cases remained unexplained. The discovery of Hepatitis C virus revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives. More
The not altogether surprising list of famous people who’ve contracted Hepatitis C. Here
Don’t we have enough diseases now without discovering more new ones?
What a gyp. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine should have gone to Donald Trump, for beating Covid 19!!! MAGA!
The hepatitis C virus was discovered in 1989 and they’re just getting around to it?
Shameful & shameless.
…uh, Hep C is not new…
…wonder if this means they’ll be thinking about that young Salk fellow, that Jonas us an up-and-comer with his revolutionary idees about that newfangledy polio and all, but that’s next year, right now it’s time to grab your flapper and hie out to find some hooch, so 23 skiddo to you, whippersnapper…
My favorite hepatitis memes:
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/01/010a23f7d660fcc34ea950b02a2c7d32d407de9cadfd7e7191d7f893f8a7f800.jpg
As a Tiger Mom, it always cracked me up.
Obama should have won that Nobel prize. He knows his alphabet to at least the letter G.