2012 MCMULLAN, Laura K.; FOLK, Scott; KELLY, Aubree J.; ET AL
A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…
GMN 10915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13111
2013 SMITH, Billy G.
Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
GMN 9374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11557
2014 THE INTERNATIONAL GLOSSINA GENOME INITIATIVE
Genome sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Tyrpanosomiasis.
The Internation Glossina Genome Initiative consisted of 179 collaborators. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13538
2014 TSIAMIS, George; FALCHETTO, Marco; BRELSFOARD, Corey; ET AL
Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleep…
GMN 11341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13539
2014 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Global Health Events web archive.
Global Health Events web archive "Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine b…
GMN 12155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14365
2014 MASTERSON, Karen M.
The malaria project: The U.S. government's secret mission to find a miracle cure.
"....the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. "American war planners, foresee…
GMN 12799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15045
2015 VARLIK, Nükhet
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
GMN 8274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10450
2015 ELLIS, John H.
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
GMN 9859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12047
2015 MCCANN, James C. (1950 – )
The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.
GMN 10800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12996
2015 PRITT, Bobbi S.; JOHNSON, Diep K. Hoang; SCHIFFMAN, Elizabeth K.; DAVIS, Jeffrey P.; ET AL
Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…
GMN 10905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13101
2015 KOSOY, Olga L.; LAMBERT, Amy J.; HAWKINSON, Dana J.; STAPLES, Jennifer Erin; ET AL
Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…
GMN 10917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13113
2015 LUO, Li-Mei; ZHAO, Li; WEN, Hong-Ling; ET AL
Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …
GMN 10919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13115
2015 TOMIC, Zlata Blažina (1926 – ); BLAŽINA, Vesna
Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
GMN 13531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15808
2016 CAMPBELL, Bruce M. S.
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
GMN 9694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11881
2016 LYNTERIS, Christos
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
GMN 9895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12083
2016 PRITT, Bobbi S.; JOHNSON, Diep K. Hoang; MEAD, Paul S.; ET AL
Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetemia: A descriptive study.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Mead, Johnson. Discovery of Lyme Borreliosis or Borrelia mayonii, a new variant of B. burgdorferi. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 10922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13118
2016 SIROHI, Devika; KUHN, Richard J.; ROSSMANN, Michael G. (1930 – 2019); ET AL
The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsimile f…
GMN 10941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13137
2016 DUTRA, Heverton Leandor Carneiro; ROCHA, Marcele Neves; MOREIRA, Luciano Andrade; ET AL
Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …
GMN 10942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13138
2016 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus - Miami - Dade and Broward counties, Florida, June-August 2016.
First report on Zika virus infections in the U.S., tracing the area of infection to a specific square mile, creating a buffer zone around the area, targeting it for spraying and mosquito collection, intervention, mass…
GMN 10944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13140
2017 PRITT, Bobbi S.; SLOAN, Lynn M.; ALLERDICE, Michelle E. J.; ET AL
Proposal to reclassify Ehrlichia muris as Ehrlichia muris subsp. muris subsp. nov. and description of Ehrlichia muris subsp. eauclairensis subsp. nov., a newly recognized tick borne pathogen of humans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Allderdice, Sloan. By extremely complex genotyping methods and fine electron microscopic analysis of the organism, the authors showed that the infectious agent i…
GMN 10906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13102
2017 GRUBAUGH, Nathan D.; LADNER, Jason T.; KRAEMER, Moritz U.G.; ET AL
Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Grubaugh, Ladner, Kraemer. The authors found that the Zika virus was introduced into Florida at least 4 times, but perhaps as many as 40 times, before it was detected, …
GMN 10945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13141
2017 CLEMENTS, Alan N.; HARBACH, Ralph E.
History of the discovery of the mode of transmission of yellow fever virus.
Digital text is available from Wiley Online Library at this link.
GMN 11861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14065
2017 KARIKÓ, Katalin (1955 – ); WEISSMAN, Drew; PARDI, Norbert; ET AL
Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.
Prior to their development of the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, Karikó and Weissman (Nobel Prize 2023) and colleagues used a novel mRNA vaccine, with base modifications created in their laboratory, to generate a protecti…
GMN 14201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16517
2018 PIERSON, Theodore C.; DIAMOND, Michael
The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pierson, Diamond. Analyzes, and documents with 147 references, the variety of new clinical syndromes, including fetal / in utero effects, caused by the Zika virus. Also…
GMN 10946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13142
2019 WANG, Ze-Dong; WANG, Bo; WEI, Feng; ET AL
A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…
GMN 10916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13112
2020 INGHAM, Victoria A.; ANTHOUSI, Amalia; DOURIS, Vassilis; ET AL
A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids.
Researching how the malarial mosquito A. gambiae developed resistance to common pyrethroid insecticides, the authors discovered how natural selection had enabled this insect population to develop resistance. They anal…
GMN 12596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14836
