2002 ALCHON, Susan Austin (1952 – )
Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.
GMN 7983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10159
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
2003 ALCHON, Susan Austin (1952 – )
A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.
GMN 10183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12372
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 SPINAGE, Clive A.
Cattle plague: A history.
"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…
GMN 11755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13955
2004 CLIFF, Andrew David; SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, Matthew
War epidemics: An historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850–2000.
GMN 9762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11950
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 RILEY, Lee W.
Molecular epidemiology of infectious disease.
GMN 11379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13578
2004 MORABIA, Alfredo (1952 – )
A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. Edited by Alfredo Morabia.
GMN 11530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13729
2004 MARKEL, Howard (1960 – )
When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.
GMN 13701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15983
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 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 TAUBENBERGER, Jeffery K. (1961 – ); TUMPEY, Terence M.; BASLER, Christopher F.; AGUILAR, Patricia V.; ET AL
Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…
GMN 11335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13533
2005 HAYES, Jo N. (1938 – )
Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.
GMN 11811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14013
2005 KNOBLER, Stacey L.; MACK, Alison; MAHMOUD, Adel (1941 – 2018); LEMON, Stanley M.
The threat of pandemic influenza: Are we ready? Workshop summary prepared for Forum on Microbial Threats Board on Global Heath. Edited by Stacey L. Knobler, Alison Mack, Adel Mahmoud, Stanley M. Lemon.
Digital edition from http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11150.html.
GMN 12072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14281
2006 KILBOURNE, Edwin Dennis (1920 – 2011)
Influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
Abstract: "Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The latter 2 were in the era of modern virology and most thoroughly characterized. All 3 have been in…
GMN 11872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14076
2007 KELTON, Paul
Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,
GMN 7506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9678
2007 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.
"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…
GMN 11391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13590
2007 PACKARD, Randall M. (1945 – )
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
GMN 13290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15556
2008 GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
GMN 10509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12702
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
2009 BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry" (1944 – ); GINSBURG, Jeremy; MOHEBBI, Matthew H.; ET AL
Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.
Abstract "Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new …
GMN 13728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16012
2010 HARRISON, Mark
Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.
GMN 8822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11000
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 SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…
GMN 10342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12534
2010 SERLIN, David
Imagining illness: Public health and visual culture. Edited by David Serlin.
"From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has alway…
GMN 10612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12805
2010 FRANDSEN, Karl-Erick
The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.
This work "offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern…
GMN 11393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13592
2011 KOCH, Tom
Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.
Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors.
GMN 8686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10863
2011 HANSON, Marta E.
Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.
GMN 9488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11672
2011 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]
GMN 10625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12818
2012 CLIFF, Andrew David; SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, Matthew
Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.
GMN 9458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11641
2012 HARRISON, Mark
Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
GMN 10418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12611
2012 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.
Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …
GMN 10876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13072
2012 ZAKI, Ali Mohamed; BOHEEMEN, Sander van; BESTEFROER, Theo M.; ET AL
Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …
GMN 10877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13073
2013 ARTENSTEIN, Andrew W.
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
GMN 8100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10276
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
2013 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
GMN 10219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12409
2013 MEMISH, Ziad A.; MISHRA, Nischay; OLIVAL, Kevin J.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
GMN 10878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13074
2013 ADLER, Richard
Cholera in Detroit: A history.
GMN 12141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14350
2014 MAHMOOD, Syed S.; LEVY, Daniel; RAMACHANDRAN, Vasan S.; WANG, Thomas J.
The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases: A historical perspective.
Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12403
2014 AZHAR, Esam I.; EL-KAFRAWY, Sherif; FARRAJ, Suma A.; ET AL
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
GMN 10879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13075
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
2014 SCHIEFFELIN, John S.; SCHAFFER, Jeffrey G.; GOBA, Augustine; ET AL
Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Schieffelin, Shaffer, Goba. The authors used "quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a…
GMN 10929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13125
2014 LYON, G. Marshall; MEHTA, Aneesh K.; VARKEY, Jay B.; ET AL
Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.
Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…
GMN 10930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13126
