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24th Jul 2015

Keywords: HPV, Vaccinations, Vaccines

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Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023)

Harald zur Hausen studied viruses and discovered that certain strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease, can cause cervical cancer, in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Zur Hausen spent his research career identifying the viruses that cause diseases, particularly cancer-causing viruses (oncoviruses). He primarily focused on HPV and cervical cancer. Zur Hausen hypothesized that HPV was cancerous and discovered that two strains, HPV 16 and 18, caused cervical cancer. That discovery led to improved diagnosis of cervical cancer and the later development of the HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix. In 2008, zur Hausen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Zur Hausen was born in 11 March 1936 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany. Growing up, he and his family survived World War II despite the frequent bombing of their hometown. Zur Hausen attended elementary school in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany, but his education was interrupted in 1943 when schools closed due to the frequent bombing. After the end of World War II, in 1946, at the age of ten, he attended secondary school. In 1950, his family moved to Northern Germany, and he finished his high school education there, graduating in 1955.

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1. * If we consider that, for instance, smoking is a very bad idea, it then seems a little odd that we should seek to find cures to the many and complex diseases it causes at the expense of time, money and attention being dedicated to the behavioural sciences that might be more effective in reducing the incidence of the behaviours that lead to these diseases. There is a lot of effort developing evidence-based theory and techniques to change health-related and risky behaviours: education alone isn't sufficient.

   Chris Martin, neuroscientist, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, who posed the original question on http://lindau.nature.com.

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