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...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?