Henrietta Lacks, who received WHO Director-General’s Award, was from which country?
A. USA
B. Australia
C. UK
D. Germany
Answer
Correct Answer: A. USA
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The Chief of the World Health Organisation honored the late Henrietta Lacks with the Director-General award. She is an American woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s. The cells provided the foundation for vast scientific inventions, including research about the coronavirus. The ‘HeLa’ cell line, derived from the first two letters of Henrietta Lacks, helped in the development of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines.