Yvonne Cossart

Yvonne Edna Cossart (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 MB BS 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, at the age of 80. She was survived by her husband, Ted Wills, and son, Tom Wills.

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