Nobel Prize For Medicine Or Physiology 2020
✓Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were chosen for the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.
✓Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
✓It is a small (55–65 nm in size), enveloped, positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus
✓Family: Flaviviridae.
✓It is the cause of hepatitis C and some cancers such as liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, abbreviated HCC) and lymphomas in humans.
✓Unlike hepatitis A and B, there is currently no vaccine to prevent hepatitis C infection
✓The World Health Organisation estimates there are over 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide and 400,000 deaths each year. The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver inflammation and cancer.
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