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You might call this week the Noble week as most of 2008 Noble Prizes will be announced this week. It kicks off today with "The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008" as it's called officially. The prize is shared by Harald zur Hausen , Germany for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier , France for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.So the 2008 prizes are awarded for discoveries of important viruses. The human papilloma viruses (HPV) is a family of several hundered viruses of which two, HPV 16 and HPV 18, zur Hausen proved causing cervical cancer. He argued against common belief in early 1980's and showed his proof in 1983. Thanks to his discovery vaccine has been developed and this is now given to young women to protect this form of cancer.
The human immunodeficiency virus is well-known by most of us as HIV and it causes AIDS. By identifying this virus the fight against AIDS could improve dramatically by developing preventive medicine to slow down the disease. Today an estimated 60 million people has been infected by HIV and 25 million people had died from AIDS. Without Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier's discovery these figures would have been much higher.
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