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Richard Shope was a young scientist who worked with Simon Flexner and Paul Lewis and who was ultimately responsible for identifying the pathogen behind the 1918 influenza epidemic. Though Shope’s work wasn’t flawless and was perhaps negatively affected by the early death of his mentor Lewis, today scientists agree that Shope discovered a virus that was directly descended from the 1918 influenza virus. Though Shope was too young to be practicing during the 1918 pandemic, his work demonstrated how new generations could build on the work of previous generations in order to make important new discoveries.
Richard Shope Quotes in The Great Influenza
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Chapter 35
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The greatest questions remained the simplest ones: What caused influenza? What was the pathogen? Was Pfeiffer right when he identified a cause and named it Bacillus influenzae? And if he was not right, then what did cause it? What was the killer?
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Richard Shope Quotes in The Great Influenza
The The Great Influenza quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Shope or refer to Richard Shope. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 35
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The greatest questions remained the simplest ones: What caused influenza? What was the pathogen? Was Pfeiffer right when he identified a cause and named it Bacillus influenzae? And if he was not right, then what did cause it? What was the killer?
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