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Yvonne Cossart
Australian virologist

Yvonne Cossart

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Australian virologist
A.K.A.
Yvonne Edna Cossart Yvonne Edna Wills Yvonne Wills Yvonne E. Cossart
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Gender
Female
Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Place of death
Greenwich, Municipality of Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia
Age
80 years
Education
University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Employers
University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Awards
Officer of the Order of Australia
(1998)
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Biography

Yvonne Edna Cossart AO (14 August 1934 – 16 December 2014) was an Australian virologist, who discovered the parvovirus B19 in 1975.

Cossart graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in 1957 and MBBS in 1959.

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to medicine as a specialist in infectious diseases, especially in the areas of virological research, epidemiology and disease prevention, and to education".

Cossart died at Greenwich Hospital on 16 December 2014, aged 80.

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