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Professor David Tscharke is one of the leading researchers on viruses – he’s a go-to expert on the coronavirus – but now he’s been given a grant to study a field far closer to home: his own illness. The head of Australian National University’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases is to research multiple sclerosis, the disease he found he had 10 years ago. At the age of 41, he felt some tingling and numbness that turned out to be caused by MS, a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. “I knew something was wrong because I had an odd sensation in my…
