The separate discoveries made by the scientists helped create blood tests and medicines to treat the blood-borne, chronic disease.
American researchers Harvey J. Alter and Charles M.
The blood-borne disease may cause liver inflammation and cancer and the World Health Organisation estimates that there are 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide, leading to 400,000 deaths each year. In 1976, American scientist Baruch Blumberg won the Nobel prize for discovering Hepatitis B, the first blood-borne hepatitis.
The Nobel in medicine is the first of six prizes that are set to be announced this month, marking exceptional achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish Kronor . While working at the U.S. National Institutes of Health , Alter was the first to discover that patients receiving blood transfusions were getting infected by a new form of chronic viral hepatitis that was distinct from Hepatitis A and B.
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