RARE "First Human Virus" Richard Shope Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

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.