1954 ALLISON, Anthony Clifford (1925 – 2014)
Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.
Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…
GMN 11887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14091
1955 RUSSELL, Paul Farr (1894 – 1983)
Man’s mastery of malaria.
Heath Clark Lectures, 1953.
GMN 5264.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8559
1960 CHRISTOPHERS, Samuel Rickard (1873 – 1978)
Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.
GMN 9390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11573
1965 –1971 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915); EXPÓSITO, César Rodriguez (1904 – 1972)
Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.
GMN 9423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11606
1969 FRANCO, Odair
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
GMN 8936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11114
1976 MILLER, Louis Howard (1935 – ); MASON, Steven J.; CLYDE, David Francis (1925 – 2002); ET AL
The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.
The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…
GMN 11888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14093
1982 KUNO, Goro (1940 – ); FLORES, Bess
Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.
GMN 5475.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7625
1997 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); SMITH, Billy G.
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
GMN 9385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11568
1999 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002); POSER, Charles Marcel (1923 – 2010)
An illustrated history of malaria.
Concentrates on 19th century developments.
GMN 10579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12772
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
2001 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
GMN 10799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12995
2002 GARDNER, Malcolm J.; HALL, Neil; FUNG, Eula; ET AL
Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Gardner, Hall, Fung.... Genome of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite carried by the mosquito that causes malaria in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its i…
GMN 11336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13534
2002 HOLT, Robert A.; SUBRAMANIAN, G. Mani; HALPERN, Aaron L.; ET AL
The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Holt, Subramanian, Halpern.... Sequence of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss…
GMN 11337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13535
2005 PIERCE, John R.; WRITER, James V.
Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.
GMN 9386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11569
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
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
2007 NENE, Vishvanath M.; WORTMAN, Jennifer Russo; LAWSON, Daniel; ET AL
Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…
GMN 11338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13536
2007 PACKARD, Randall M. (1945 – )
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
GMN 13290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15556
2009 SLATER, Leo B.
War and Disease: Biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century.
GMN 9391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11574
2010 MCNEILL, John Robert (1954 – )
Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…
GMN 9389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11572
2010 CAREY, Allison F.; WANG, Guirong; CARLSON, John R.; ET AL
Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" …
GMN 11076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13272
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 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 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
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 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
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
