1st  commercial PET scanner marketed.

Blumberg & Gajdusek: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovering new mechanisms for origin & dissemination of infectious diseases including Hepatitis B virus & slow virus Kuru (relevant later to vCJD). Blumberg later develops an HBV diagnostic test & vaccine.

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