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 * ...that virologist Harald zur Hausen received both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008?
 * ...that in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing?
 * ...that Michael S. Gottlieb was instrumental in identifying AIDS in 1981 and thereafter treated actor Rock Hudson for the disease?
 * ...that the tick Ornithodoros erraticus spreads the African swine fever virus in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)?
 * ...that the CEO of CEPI, a key organisation in the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?