News of today's Nobel Prize announcement can be found in countless ways. This is the highly readable account from The Scientist: "William Campbell, Satoshi Omura, and Youyou Tu have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their contributions to antiparasitic drug development."
...or listen to Rob Stein's report on NPR Morning Edition. Nobel Prize week is always inspiring, and this year's winners for Medicine are no exception. Their research has led to treatment of potential benefit to the nearly 4 billion people worldwide who are exposed to these particular disease-causing parasites.
Wondering how many parasites bedevil humans? Here's an alarming guide:
The parasites of Homo sapiens : an annotated checklist of the protozoa, helminths, and arthropods for which we are home / R.W. Ashford and W. Crewe. Taylor & Francis, 2003.
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