The scientists who discovered HIV will share the Nobel prize for medicine with the expert who linked human papillpoma virus (HIV) to cervical cancer.

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Harald zur Hausen, of Germany, received the prize for making the link between the HPV and cervical cancer.

About 3,000 UK women are diagnosed with this type of cancer every year UK.

The discovery of the link between HPV and cervical cancer has led to the development of vaccines to immunise young girls against HPV.

(BBC)

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