Yvonne Cossart
# Yvonne Cossart

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 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.

## Works

* Cossart, Yvonne E (1977), Virus hepatitis and its control, Baillière Tindall, ISBN 978-0-7020-0651-7
* Department of Infectious Diseases; Cossart, Yvonne E (1990), History and philosophy of medicine for medical students, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
* Cossart, Yvonne E; Pegler, Mollie; University of Sydney. Faculty of Medicine (1993), Doctor! Look behind you : a companion for medical students, History & Philosophy of Medicine Unit, University of Sydney
* Sefton, Ann Jervie; Cossart, Yvonne E; Freckelton, Louise; University of Sydney (2006), 150 years of the Faculty of Medicine, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-1-920898-35-9
