1998 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FRASER, Claire M. (1955 – ); NORRIS, Steven J.; WEINSTOCK, George M. (1949 – ); ET AL
Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13540
1998 COLE, S. T.; ET AL
Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence.
Abstract: "Countless millions of people have died from tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus. The complete genome sequence of the best-characterized strain of Mycobacterium tubercu…
GMN 11998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14206
1998 HOPKINS, Donald R. (1941 – ); DOWDLE, W. R.
The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.
This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.
GMN 13807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16095
1999 LYONS, Maryinez; LEWIS, Milton James; SETEL, Philip W.
Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
GMN 10031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12220
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 BULLER, Richard; ARENS, Max; HMIEL, S. Paul; ET AL
Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human Ehrlichiosis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Buller, Arens, Hmiel. The authors confirmed that the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), is Ehrlichia ewingii, a pathogen carried by dogs and known in that …
GMN 10903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13099
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
1999 HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ); GAO, Feng; BAILES, Elizabeth; ROBERTSON, David L.; ET AL
Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Gao, Bailes, Robertson, Hahn. Demonstration, led by Hahn, that HIV-1 originated specifically in the chimpanzee--a mutant of the chimp SIV (SIV-cpz) which acquired mutations s…
GMN 11040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13236
1999 KOLATA, Gina Bari (1948 – )
Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
GMN 11925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14130
1999 ENGLISH, Peter C.
Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.
GMN 12340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14564
2000 GREEN, Edward C. (1944 – )
Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
GMN 8504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10681
2000 SETEL, Philip W.
A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.
GMN 10033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12222
2000 RAOULT, Didier (1952 – ); BIRG, Marie-Laure; LA SCOLA, Bernard; ET AL
Cultivation of the bacillus of Whipple's disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Raoult, Birg, La Scola. Raoult and colleagues cultured the bacterium causing the systemic digestive tract infection Whipple's disease from a mitral valve of a patient w…
GMN 11981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14189
2000 REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
GMN 12328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14552
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
2001 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
GMN 10799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12995
2001 SCOTT, Susan (1953 – ); DUNCAN, Christopher J.
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
GMN 11853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14057
2001 ROBERTSON, Roland G.
Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.
GMN 13710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15994
2002 RUSNOCK, Andrea A.
Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.
Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.
GMN 8041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10217
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
2002 CAMPBELL, Judy
Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.
"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…
GMN 13567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15845
2002 FENN, Elizabeth Anne (1959 – )
Pox Americana: The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82.
GMN 13793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16080
2003 ARMUS, Diego
Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
GMN 7941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10116
2003 CARTER, K. Codell (1939 – )
The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.
"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…
GMN 9885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12073
2003 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.
First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…
GMN 10859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13055
2003 PEIRIS, Joseph Sriyal Malik (1949 – ); POON, Lit Man Leo; LAI, S. T.; ET AL
Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…
GMN 10860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13056
2003 KSIAZEK, Thomas F.; ERDMAN, Dean; GOLDSMITH, Cynthia S.; ET AL
A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Ksiazek and over 40 co-authors around the world published the lead article in the May 15, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that was nearly entirely devoted to SARS. Order of authorship in the publishe…
GMN 10861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13057
2003 ROTA, Paul A.; OBERSTE, M. Steven; MONROE, Stephan S.; DERISI, Joseph L.; ET AL
Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Dated May 30, 2003. Rota and team at the CDC determined the sequence of the complete genome of SARS-CoV, and characterized the viral genome. Order of authorship in the published paper was Rota, Oberste, Monroe....DeRi…
GMN 10862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13058
2003 MARRA, Marco A. (1966 – ); JONES, Steven J. M.; ASTELL, Caroline R.
The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.
Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…
GMN 10863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13059
2003 LI, Wenghui; MOORE, Michael J.; VASILIEVA, Natalya
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus.
The authors showed that the angiontensin-converting enzyme 2, abbreviated ACE2, is the obligative cell receptor for the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 12009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14217
2003 CHASE, Marilyn
The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.
GMN 13145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15404
2003 FARMER, Paul Edward (1959 – 2022); KIDDER, John Tracy (1945 – )
Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world
Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.
GMN 14155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16470
2004 BRIGGS, Charles Leslie (1953 – ); MANTINI-BRIGGS, Clara
Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.
'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…
GMN 9025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11204
2004 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Anthrax: A history.
GMN 9652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11839
2004 BARRY, John M. (1947 – )
The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
GMN 9974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12163
2004 GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
GMN 10508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12701
2004 GLYNN, Ian Michael (1928 – ); GLYNN, Jenifer
The life and death of smallpox.
GMN 11244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13441
2004 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – ); LEGNAME, Giuseppe; BASKAKOV, Ilia V.; NGUYEN, Hoang-Oanh B.; ET AL
Synthetic mammalian prions.
The authors modified Koch's Postulates within the context of prion disease. To do so the followed these steps: 1) They created recombinant mouse prion proteins in an E. coli and polymerized them. 2) They proved that t…
GMN 12836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15082
2004 SIENA, Kevin
Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.
GMN 13690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15972
2004 DUTOUR, Olivier; PÁLFI, György; BERATO, Jacques; BRUN, Jean-Pierre
L’origine de la syphilis en Europe: Avant ou après 1493? / The origin of syphilis in Europe: Before or after 1493? Proceedings of an international colloquium, Toulon, France, 25–28 November 1993. Edited by Olivier Dutour, György Pálfi, Jacques Berato, and Jean-Pierre Brun.
The occasion of this meeting was the discovery in 1989 near Hyères (Var, France) of a human skeleton of the third or fourth century CE presenting lesions similar to those of syphilis. The volume contains fifty papers …
GMN 14086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16397
2004 DAMON, Inger K.; REED, Kurt D.; MELSKI, John W.; GRAHAM, Mary Beth
The detection of Monkeypox in humans in the Western Hemisphere.
The first report on detection of Mpox (Monkeypox) in humans in the Western Hemisphere, elaborating and expanding on cases reported in 2003 in Wisconsin and Milwaukee. These patients had been bitten by prairie dogs. At…
GMN 14297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16621
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 FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)
Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.
GMN 10080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12269
2005 BYERLY, Carol R.
Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
GMN 10415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12608
2005 MOHR, James C.
Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.
GMN 10515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12708
2005 LI, Wendong; SHI, Zhengli (1964 – ); YU, Meng; ET AL
Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.
Dated October 28, 2005, roughly two years after the outbreak of SARS, the natural reservoirs of this class of coronaviruses was discovered. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
GMN 10864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13060
2005 LEROY, Eric M.; KUMULUNGUI, Bruce; POURRUT, Xavier; ET AL
Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Leroy, Kumulungui, Pourrut. The authors showed that fruit bats, while asymptomatic, act as reservoirs and potential carriers of Ebola virus in Africa. These bats are eaten by…
GMN 10927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13123
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
