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Who Discovered Mumps?

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Based on historical accounts, an American pathologist by the name of Ernest William Goodpasture was the one who discovered mumps virus in 1934.
Claude D. Johnson and Ernest W. Goodpasture conducted an investigation into the etiology of Mumps and concluded that a virus in saliva caused mumps.

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Ernest William Goodpasture was the one who discovered mumps virus in 1934.

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