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3 win Nobel medicine award for hepatitis C virus discovery

by Associated Press
| October 5, 2020 3:06 AM

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

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