1905 DUTTON, Joseph Everett (1877 – 1905); TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.
Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…
GMN 5318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6610
1930 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
GMN 12459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14691
1977 PATTYN, Stefaan Rogier (1927 – 2008); GROEN, Guido van der
Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…
GMN 7866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10038
1977 JOHNSON, Karl M.; LANGE, James V.; WEBB, Patricia; ET AL
Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …
GMN 10923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13119
1986 NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ); WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ); YAO, X.; KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
GMN 9331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11513
1992 LYONS, Maryinez
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
GMN 9264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11446
2016 MULANGU, Sabue; CORTI, Davide; MISASI, John; ET AL
Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.
The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…
GMN 11375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13574
