1757 ADANSON, Michel (1727 – 1806)

Histoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53.

Adanson's voyage and explorations in Senegal, including the Island of Goree and the River Senegal. The second part is a general survey of the living mollusks he found in Senegal. His classification of mollusks was ori…

GMN 11525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13724

1985 KANKI, Phyllis J.; BARIN, Francis; M'BOUP, Souleymane; ET AL

Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.

First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…

GMN 10789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12985

1986 CLAVEL, François; GUÉTARD, D.; BRUN-VEZINET, François; ET AL

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

GMN 10788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12984

2001 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

GMN 10091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12280