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Harald zur Hausen, photographed by Armin Kübelbeck
...that
virologist
Harald zur Hausen
received both the
Gairdner Foundation International Award
and the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
in 2008?
...that in 2007, the first
Australian outbreak of equine influenza
caused a nationwide ban on
horse racing
?
...that
Michael S. Gottlieb
was instrumental in identifying
AIDS
in 1981 and thereafter treated actor
Rock Hudson
for the disease?
...that the tick
Ornithodoros erraticus
spreads the
African swine fever virus
in the
Iberian Peninsula
(
Spain
and
Portugal
)?
...that the CEO of
CEPI
, a key organisation in the race to develop a
vaccine for
COVID-19
, has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
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