Facets

2003 CE

#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…

2000 CE

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2005 CE

#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.)

2014 CE

#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…

2012 CE

#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 …

2003 CE

#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 CE

#10860

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…

1840 CE

#13663

De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.

Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…

2001 CE

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

1886 CE

#9111

Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#1672

Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.

Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.

2016 CE

#10012

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)

Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE

2000 CE

#10013

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 3e partie: Epidémies V et VII. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France). Commentaire médical par Mirko Grmek.

Epidemics V and VII are dated sometime around mid 4th century BCE, and compiled by a member of Hippocrates' circle.

1958 CE

#9110

Late ancient and medieval population.

Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.

2013 CE

#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…

2003 CE

#10859

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…

2012 CE

#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 …

1950 CE

#13804

The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.

2017 CE

#10694

The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.

2003 CE

#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…