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Christina Berndt
Recently, Christian Drosten has also been a doctor of veterinary medicine. Only as an honor, the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover awarded him a “Dr. med. vet. hc” – because of his services in the pandemic. For Drosten, doctor and the most famous virologist in the republic, it’s a bit like coming home. He grew up on a farm in Emsland – an area that is politically black, extremely Catholic and very rural. There are more animals than people there, so he was very happy about the recognition from the veterinarians’ guild.