Nigeria: As Polio Becomes History

[This Day] Discovering drugs to fight the parasites causing malaria and roundworms was the basis for awarding this year's Nobel Prize in medicine. The great scientists who would share the $960,000 globally acclaimed prize are a Chinese, Youyou Tu (for discovering a malaria drug) and a Japanese, Satoshi Omura, and an Irish American, William C. Campell, (for coming up with a roundworms drug). According to the Nobel Prize Committee, the scientists recorded the breakthroughs way back in the 1970s and 1980s and the "conse

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Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 7, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news