"Keynote Address: The Australia Antigen Story"
Speech
By: Baruch S. Blumberg
Date: November 1982
Source: Blumberg, Baruch S. "Keynote Address: The Australia Antigen Story," November 1982. In Hepatitis B: The Virus, the Disease, and the Vaccine. New York: Plenum Press, 1984, 7, 9–11, 12–14.
About the Author: Baruch S. Blumberg (1925–) was born in New York City and received an M.D. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1976 along with Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek for their work with infectious diseases. He has been professor of medicine and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and became the first scientist and first American to hold the position of Master at Balliol College at Oxford University.
Introduction
Hepatitis is a viral infection of which five types exist: A, B, C, D and E. One may contract Type A from contaminated...
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