Virus-hunting trio wins Nobel for Hepatitis C discovery
SIMON JOHNSON and DOUGLAS BUSVINE TWO Americans and a Briton have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine for identifying the Hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped to limit the spread of the fatal disease and develop antiviral drugs to cure it. The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and Briton Michael Houghton meant there was now a chance of eradicating the Hepatitis C virus - a goal the World Health Organization wants to achieve in the next decade. The three share the 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) award for discovering and proving that…