It was 2 French researchers who discovered the AIDs virus and thanks to them we had a name for a disease that now has more than 33 million people world-wide as carriers (of HIV) and treatments.Â
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A German scientist was honored for showing that the human papilloma virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer. HPV causes genital warts which in turn can cause more than 500,000 cases of cervical cancer yearly. HPV-16 aand HPV-18 are specifically implicated as being responsible for 70% of those cases.
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