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Nobel in Medicine Awarded to Three for Advances Against Tropical Diseases
Discoveries combat ailments from roundworm parasites, malaria mortality rates
By RON WINSLOW and ANNA MOLIN
October 5, 2015
STOCKHOLM—Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that have transformed treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases that afflict or threaten more than three billion people in some 100 nations around the world.
William C. Campbell, an Irish-born researcher who did his work in the U.S., and Satoshi Omura from Japan shared half the prize for research that led to the develop of the drug ivermectin, which has dramatically reduced.
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