The Nobel Prize: The Hepatitis C virus can now be cured

For the first time in history, the Hepatitis C virus can now be cured. The 2020 Medicine Laureates’ discoveries revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.#NobelPrize

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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet

has today decided to award

the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

jointly to

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice

for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus