3 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and cancer

October 6, 2008 By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE , Associated Press Writers
3 European scientists share Nobel medicine prize (AP)

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In this Sept. 26, 2007 file photo Luc Montagnier, one of the doctors who helped first isolate the HIV virus, poses with a golden crown of laurels awarded to him in Sofia, Bulgaria . Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier have shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine. Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi were honored for discovering HIV, the AIDS virus (AP Photo)

(AP) -- Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases.


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Sirussinder
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The same organization who awarded AL GORE, HAHAHA

Nobel Prizes are a joke.
superhuman
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Physics, chemistry and medicine ones are serious stuff
SUBdiversity
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Did anybody ever win a prize for creating AIDS?. I'm not sure what kind of award he/she should get, maybe a NWO Platinum Pyramid for outstanding research services to global population control. It's all well and good to award somebody who MAY have found a cure but what about the poor soul who slaved over a hot Rhesus monkey for years to create it.. doesn't he/she deserve even a mention?.
For those who don't understand my sick humour: please exit left into the nearest "what's NWO" information booth. Thank you.
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