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Did Barry Blumberg win the Nobel Prize before or after the discovery of the Hepatitis B vaccine?

  • After

  • Before

  • Same time

  • He never discovered a Hepatitis B vaccine

Answer

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Baruch Blumberg and Carleton Gajdusek in 1976 for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases. Blumberg's work specifically involved the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus and the development of a vaccine to prevent the infection.
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