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The late Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011) was an American scientist and doctor whose most significant contributions to medicine include the identification of the Hepatitis B virus. He was one of three co-recipients of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [Listener: Rebecca Blanchard; date recorded: 2007]

TRANSCRIPT: As you might imagine, it's very… good that this vaccine has moved forward so well. There have been some concerns about side-effects, but so far, the... any objective evidence is there isn't… there isn’t… there aren't any significant side-effects at a population level. And the… there’s a… the WHO, at present, does not recommend revaccination. That's being re-evaluated, and they may change that program. The… there are, you know, mutations occur, but strangely, they don't seem to affect the efficacy of the vaccine, much. The… it's about, you know, let's say 90% effective; that's about as good as you can expect from a vaccine. If there was a vaccine for AIDS that was 50% effective, 40% effective, they'd use it.