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Up for sale a RARE! "First Human Virus" Richard Shope Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Richard Edwin Shope (December 25,
1901 – October 2, 1966) was an American virologist who, together with his
mentor Paul A. Lewis at
the Rockefeller A in
pigs in 1931. Using Shope's technique, Smith, Andrewes, and Laidlaw of England's Medical Research Council cultured
it from a human in 1933. They and Shope in 1935 and 1936, respectively,
identified it as the virus circulating in the 1918 pandemic. In 1933, Shope identified the Shope papillomavirus,
which infects rabbits. It was the first human virus discovered. His
discovery later assist other researcher to link the papilloma virus to warts
and cervical cancer. He received the 1957 Albert
Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award. His son Robert Shope was also a virologist, who specialised
in arthropod-borne viruses.
