Facets

2003

#10861

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…

2003

#10862

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…

2003

#10863

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…

2003

#11755

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…

2003

#12137

Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.

2004

#9762

War epidemics: An historical geography of infectious diseases in military conflict and civil strife, 1850–2000.

2004

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

2004

#10508

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…

2004

#11379

Molecular epidemiology of infectious disease.

2004

#11530

A history of epidemiologic methods and concepts. Edited by Alfredo Morabia.

2004

#13701

When germs travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed.

2005

#10415

Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.

2005

#10864

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.)

2005

#10927

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…

2005

#11335

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…

2005

#11811

Epidemics and pandemics: Their impact on human history.

2005

#12072

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.

2005

#14029

Body counts: Medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / La quantificattion medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologigues. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz.

2006

#11872

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…

2007

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

2007

#11391

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…

2007

#13290

The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.

2008

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

2009

#12021

Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.

2009

#12641

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.

2009

#13728

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 …

2010

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

2010

#9389

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…

2010

#9459

The introduction of numerical methods to assess the effects of medical interventions during the 18th century: a brief history.

An outstanding bibliographical survey available online from the James Lind Library at this link.

2010

#10342

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…

2010

#10612

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…

2010

#11393

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…

2011

#8408

History of the statistical classification of diseases and causes of death. Edited and updated by Harry M. Rosenberg and Donna L. Hoyert.

Digital facsimile available from the cdc.gov at this link.

2011

#8686

Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground.

Well-written and beautifully illustrated in color. Unfortunately the bibliography contains many errors.

2011

#9488

Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.

2011

#9892

A short history of mathematical population dynamics.

2011

#10563

Visual complexity: Mapping patterns of information.

An exceptionally beautiful graphic work with many historical examples showing how data in many fields, including medicine and biology, can be mapped and visualized.

2011

#10625

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]

2012

#9458

Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.

2012

#10418

Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.

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

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

2013

#8487

Mathematical demography: Selected papers. Edited by David Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Second, revised edition, edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Hervé Le Bras.

2013

#9374

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-…

2013

#10219

Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.

2013

#10564

Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.

Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples.

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…

2013

#12141

Cholera in Detroit: A history.

2014

#7845

Global population: History, geopolitics and life on earth.