The Nobel Prize for medicine has been jointly awarded to two scientists for their work on diseases caused by parasites and another for her research into the treatment of malaria.
BREAKING NEWS The 2015 #NobelPrize #Medicine to William C. Campbell @DrewUniversity, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu pic.twitter.com/qvH9XFZV7I
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The winners are William Campbell of Ireland and Satoshi Omura of Japan, who discovered a new drug to treat parasitic diseases, and Youyou Tu of China, who used Chinese herbal medicine to find a new kind of antimalarial agent, the Nobel Assembly announced.
2015 #NobelPrize #Medicine therapies parasitic diseases River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis),Malaria pic.twitter.com/R2z0PanUcs
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Announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine http://t.co/Wj73oAPVmI
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2015
