1805 GRIFFITHS, John
Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14716
1906 GOTSCHLICH, Felix (1874 – 1914)
Über Cholera- und choleraähnliche Vibrionen unter den aus Mekka zurückkehrenden Pilgern.
Isolation of El Tor vibrio, a particular strain of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Gotschlich first identified this strain in 1905 at a quarantine camp on the Sinai Peninsula in El Tor, Egypt . The vibrios were found i…
GMN 5111.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6061
1932 DUGUET, Firmin (1876 – ); GODART, Justin (1871 – 1956)
Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.
"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…
GMN 12051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14259
1992 BOS, Gerrit; LUQĀ AL-BA'ALBAKKI, Qustā ibn (Costa ben Luca, Constabulus) (820 – 912)
Qustā ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca. The Risāla fī tabīr safar al-hajj. Edited with translation and commentary by Gerrit Bos.
The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.
GMN 8243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10419
2012 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.
Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …
GMN 10876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13072
2012 ZAKI, Ali Mohamed; BOHEEMEN, Sander van; BESTEFROER, Theo M.; ET AL
Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …
GMN 10877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13073
2013 MEMISH, Ziad A.; MISHRA, Nischay; OLIVAL, Kevin J.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
GMN 10878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13074
2014 AZHAR, Esam I.; EL-KAFRAWY, Sherif; FARRAJ, Suma A.; ET AL
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
GMN 10879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13075
