“For their discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis C”
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(Nobel Prize)
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for their discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis C”. Their research made it possible to identify one of the causes of hepatitis – severe inflammation of the liver – after the viruses responsible for viral hepatitis A and B had previously been identified. It was thanks to the discovery of the hepatitis virus It was possible to discover the cause of much of the chronic hepatitis, then making drugs available to treat them, saving the lives of millions of people around the world.
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