1795 CHISHOLM, Colin (1755 – 1825)

An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794.

Chisholm, "Surgeon to his Majesty's Ordnance in Grenada," was apparently the first to observe the mode of transmission of the Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis. Chishom was also one of the first to recognize that th…

GMN 5336.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6710

1970 BUCKLEY, Sonja Margaret (1918 – 2005); CASALS-ARIET, Jordi (1911 – 2004)

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.

Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

GMN 5546.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6776

2014 BAIZE, Sylvain; PANNETIER, Delphine; OESTEREICH, Lisa; ET AL

Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Guéké…

GMN 10928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13124

2016 BREMAN, Joel G.; HEYMANN, David L.; LLOYD, Graham; ET AL

Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016.

A first hand account of events as they occurred in Yambuku in 1976, including the causes and reasons for the spread of Ebola within the Yambuku Mission hospital, the probable index event/patient (not identified), and …

GMN 10925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13121