1958 LUMSDEN, Leslie Leon (1875 – 1946)
St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.
In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.
GMN 4661.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/791
1962 MCLEAN, Donald M.; MCQUEEN, Joan; PETITIE, H. Elizabeth; ET AL
Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.
The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…
GMN 10920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13116
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1977 BUTLER, Thomas Campbell (1941 – ); WEAVER, Robert E.; RAMANI, T. K. Venata; BOBO, Raymond A.
Unidentified gram-negative rod infection: A new disease of man.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Butler, Weaver, Ramani....Bobo....First description of a newly discovered bacterium associated with dog bites, affecting in this case alcoholic patients or patients predispos…
GMN 11245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13442
1999 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.
On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…
GMN 10953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13149
1999 ANDERSON, John F.; ANDREADIS, Theodore G.; VOSSBRINCK, Charles R.
Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.
First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …
GMN 10954 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13150
2006 GLASS, William G.; MCDERMOTT, David H.; LIM, Jean K.
CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile infection.
The authors showed that the absence of the CCR5 receptor, which provides immunoresistance to HIV increases susceptability to West Nile virus. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Glass, McDermott, Lim et …
GMN 12597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14837
2009 FOLEY, Paul Bernard
Encephalitis lethargica and influenza. 1: The role of the influenza virus in the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919. 2: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Epidemiology and symptoms. 3: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Neuropathology and discussion.
Parts 2 and 3 are freely available from PubMedCentral at this link, and at this link.
GMN 12641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14882
2013 ARTENSTEIN, Andrew W.
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
GMN 8100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10276
2013 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
GMN 10219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12409
2014 WILSON, Michael R.; NACCACHE, Samia N.; SAMAYOA, Erik; CHIU, Charles Y.; ET AL
Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wilson, Naccache, Samayoa...Chiu. This research demonstrated the value of "next-generation-sequencing" in the diagnosis of a specific meningoencephalitis, a disease whi…
GMN 11397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13596
2014 KENNY, Elizabeth (1886 – 1952); ROGERS, Naomi (1958 – )
Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine
"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…
GMN 12380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14605
2014 PASTULA, David M.; ALIABADI, Negar; MILLER, Lisa Ann; ET AL
Acute neurologic illness of unknown etiology in children - Colorado, August-September 2014.
The authors reported a cluster of 9 children seen at Colorado Children's Hospital with an acute neurologic illness characterized by extremity weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction, diplopia (double vision), facial droop…
GMN 12713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14959
2015 VAN HAREN, Keith; AYSCUE, Patrick; WAUBANT, Emmanuelle L.; ET AL
Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015
The authors presented a retrospective study based on demographics, race, ethnicity, signs, lab results, MRI results of 59 patients identified between June 2012 and July 2015 who presented symptoms that they characteri…
GMN 12714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14960
2018 FOLEY, Paul Bernard
Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.
Both an historical and a scientific study.
GMN 12636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14877
2019 UPRETY, Priyanka; CURTIS, Darcy; ELKAN, Michael; GRAF, Erin H.; ET AL
Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.
The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion tha…
GMN 12715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14961
2020 GILSDORF, Janet R.
Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.
GMN 12013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14221
