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The first virus to be discovered was the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV), identified in 1892 by Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovsky. TMV infects tobacco plants and was the first to demonstrate that pathogens could be smaller than bacteria and could pass through filters that trapped bacteria. This groundbreaking discovery laid the foundation for virology as a scientific field.

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