Facets

1824

#2531

Origines contagii.

History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1970

#5546.4

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings.

An arenovirus infection first noted in Lassa, N. E. Nigeria, in 1969. With J. M. Baldwin, D. J. Gocke, and J. M. Troup.

1970

#5546.5

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.

Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

1991

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1996

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

2005

#12113

Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…

2006

#7924

Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.

2012

#10876

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 …

2012

#10877

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 …

2013

#10878

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…

2014

#10879

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…