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Canadians have good reason for pride in the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics to Arthur McDonald for a breakthrough that, in the words of prize officials, “changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter”.

Both diseases are caused by parasitic worms, which infect vast numbers of people in Asia and Africa.

Inc., of ivermectin, which is taken by 300 million people annually for treatment of the roundworm parasite that causes the two diseases.

Tu shared the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Japan’s Satoshi Omura for her discoveries in finding new ways to treat malaria, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute announced Monday.

This year’s Nobel Laureates have developed therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of a few of the most devastating parasitic diseases.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 has been awarded to three scientists for discoveries that have transformed treatment of malaria and a few other parasitic diseases, which afflict hundreds of millions of people each year.