US-British trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for hepatitis C discovery
A screen displays the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine, (from left) American Harvey Alter, Briton Michael Houghton and American Charles Rice, during a the announcement at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 5, 2020. PHOTO | AFP
Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, the Nobel jury said.
The three were honoured for their "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 jury said.
