Harald zur Hausen is a scientist who encountered great opposition during his work. He proposed that cervical cancer, the second most common cancer of women, is caused by a viral infection and not, like the majority of scientific contemporaries supposed, by endogenous disorder, genetic predisposition, pollution or other environmental reasons. Nonetheless he worked for decades on identification, isolation and characterisation of the human papilloma virus (HPV) against the wind of the mainstream. He detected HPV to be a heterogeneous family of viruses and only some of them cause cancer.
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机译：Harald zur Hausen是一位在工作中遭到强烈反对的科学家。他提出宫颈癌是妇女第二大常见癌症，它是由病毒感染引起的，而不是像大多数科学同时期所认为的那样，是由内源性疾病，遗传易感性，污染或其他环境原因引起的。尽管如此，他还是在数十年来致力于识别，隔离和表征人类乳头瘤病毒（HPV）的主流研究中工作。他检测到HPV是病毒的异种家族，只有其中一部分会引起癌症。
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