Dr Baruch Blumberg, Nobel Prize winner and discover of HBV, dies at 85

StephenW

Blumberg dies at 85                        Added: 07 April 2011
                                                                                                Dr Baruch Blumberg, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and medical anthropologist who discovered the hep B virus, showed that it could cause liver cancer and then helped develop a powerful vaccine to fight it, saving millions of lives has died. He was 85 and lived in Philadelphia. His family said he died, apparently of a heart attack, shortly after giving a keynote speech at a NASA conference. Dr Blumberg had long been associated with a NASA project to hunt for micro-organisms in space. His prize-winning virology and epidemiology work began in the 1960s at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and took him and his colleagues on field trips around the world, from Japan to Africa.
The work led to the discovery of the hepatitis B virus in 1967, the first test for hep B in the blood supply and the development in 1969 of the hep B vaccine — the first “cancer vaccine.” CLICK HERE TO GO TO ORIGINAL NEWS SOURCE>>

hbv30year

He is a great scientist. USA is a great country.

StephenW

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He helped to develop the Hepatitis B vaccine, the beginning of the end to the silent scourge of HBV.

三国杀

你说他发现了，也不解决哈，就走了。不过，还是要膜拜哈

StephenW

三国杀 发表于 2011-4-16 15:29
你说他发现了，也不解决哈，就走了。不过，还是要膜拜哈

Yes, you are right. He did not manage to find a cure, but he tried to find one even in his old age. He was a great friend of hbvers.

positiveattitud

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He 'helped develop a powerful vaccine to fight it, saving millions of lives has died.'

寻梦人

Rest in peace