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  diagnostic tests for, 282, 301, 314

  disparity in treatment of, 299, 300, 302

  distrust of foreign medical aid and, 290–92, 364

  as EID, 234, 305

  evolution of, 315

  globalization and, 311–12

  identified strains of, 286–87, 301, 314

  index case for, 315

  late detection of, 315

  panic about, 303, 304–5

  pharmaceutical companies and, 299, 300, 314–15, 414n

  population mobility and, 314

  possible mutation to aerosol, 305, 314

  as potential biowarfare agent, 305, 305n

  public health campaigns and, 310–11

  rumors about, 290–92, 297, 306, 309–10

  as security risk rather than urgent public health threat, 314

  skewed case data about, 292–93, 301–2, 314

  slow response to, 366

  social causes, 287–89, 296, 308–10, 314

  spillover mechanisms and, 315

  symptoms of, 305

  transmission of, 8, 284, 290, 290n, 315–16, 364, 364n

  treatment for, 299, 300, 314–15, 414n

  vaccines against, 281, 314–15, 414n

  WHO and, 283–84, 293, 296–97, 299, 301–2, 303–5, 307–9, 311–12, 335–36, 365, 414n

  Ebola Treatment Units (ETU), 288, 291–93, 300, 306–7, 364

  EcoHealth Alliance, 364n

  ecological equilibriums, 12–13, 143–44

  ecological factors, 8–9

  ecology, of pathogens, 12

  economic factors, 199, 199–200, 227–28, 230–32. See also specific diseases

  Eddie, Bernice, 133–34, 139–41

  Egypt, inadvertant transmission of hepatitis in, 228

  Ehrlich, Paul, 114

  electron microscope, 54

  El Heraldo de Mexico, 82

  El Niño, 346

  Elysian Park, California, 74, 91, 98

  “emerging infectious diseases” (EIDs), 191, 234, 305, 311, 361–62, 365, 366

  Emery, W. D’Este, 38

  Emory Hospital, 300, 302, 303

  encephalitis

  encephalitis epidemic (St. Louis, 1933), 116

  equine, 131–32, 391n

  Japanese, 242–43

  environmental causes, 8–9

  environmental causes and factors, 8–9, 12–14, 78–79, 97, 101, 143–44, 186, 187, 190–91, 231–32, 316, 317–60, 346–47, 361, 387n. See also climate and climate change; ecological equilibriums; specific diseases

  changes to built environment, 187, 362

  environmental and chemical pollutants, 170

  enzymes, 204

  EPI-2, 170

  Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), 150–51, 152–54, 158, 163, 170, 182, 195, 253, 290

  “epidemic meningitis,” 29, 67

  epidemics

  definition of, 4n, 153

  prediction of, 4–5

  preparedness for, 11–12

  war and, 14

  epidemiology, 7, 152–54, 156, 157, 367

  frequency of exposure and, 153

  induction in, 157

  microbiology and, 251

  multifactorial models of diseas and, 216–17

  as source of irrational and prejudical judgments, 11–12

  working case definitions, 153

  epithelial cells, 53, 54, 59

  epizootics. See animals, as disease vectors

  Epstein-Barr, 196, 203, 399n

  equine encephalitis, 131–32, 391n

  Erasmus University, 262

  erythromycin, 149, 164n, 190

  Essex, Myron “Max,” 205, 209

  Etaples, France, 19, 23–24, 31, 381–82n

  Eternal Love Winning Africa Hospital, known as ELWA, 302

  etiology, 5–8. See also specific diseases

  Europe. See also specific countries

  AIDS in, 214, 223

  plague in, 387n

  SARS in, 256

  “Spanish flu” in, 26

  evolution, 7, 234–35

  experimentation, 44, 45

  experts, limitations of, 361

  face masks, 49–50

  FACTOR VIII, 220

  Falwell, Jesse, 201

  farming patterns, 240–43

  Farm Laboratory, 54

  Farr, William, 5

  Fauci, Anthony, 213, 214

  favelas, 317–18, 352–53, 357

  FBI, 407n

  Feira de Santana, Brazil, 320, 323

  feline leukemia, 203, 204, 205

  fermentation, germ theory of, 39

  ferret badgers, 270–71

  Fields Virology, 324

  FIFA World Cup, 342

  Filoviridae, 282n

  filoviruses, 282n, 283, 285, 289

  “filter-passing” agents, 40–41, 42, 120–21, 122, 123–24, 126, 135

  filters, Chamberland, 40–41, 43–45

  flaviviruses, 325–26

  Flexner, Simon, 22, 32, 129, 130, 385n

  Flint, Michigan, Legionnaires’ disease in, 190

  Flores, Jesus, 66–67

  Foege, William H., 175

  fomites, 160

  Fonnie, Mbalu J., 298

  food sources, 227, 232, 272, 277–78, 285, 287, 289, 314

  foot and mouth disease, 41

  Ford, Gerald, 149, 155, 175–76

  Ford administration, 149

  Forécariah, Guinea, 291

  forests, clear-cutting of, 316

  Fore tribe, 203

  Fortaleza, Brazil, 323

  “Fort Bragg fever,” 181–82

  Fort Detrick, Maryland, 407n

  Fort Dix, New Jersey, 149, 150–51, 154, 177

  Fort Riley, Kansas, 18, 24–25, 27–28

  fowl cholera, 37, 39

  Fowler, Henry, 1–2

  “fowl plague,” 244

  Foya, Liberia, 300, 304

  Foya Borma hospital, 300

  France, 19, 28–29, 31, 230, 310

  France, David, 212

  Fraser, David, 152, 153, 154–55, 157, 158, 164, 170–73, 181

  Freetown, Sierra Leone, 294–95, 297, 300, 309, 315, 364

  French, Herbert, 51

  French Academy of Sciences, 42, 44–45

  French Polynesia, 324, 327–28, 338, 342, 344, 348–49, 350

  Frieden, Tom, 306–7

  Friedman-Kien, Alvin, 195–96, 215, 216

  Frost, Wade Hampton, 157

  Fukuda, Keiji, 244, 297

  fungal infections, 155, 194, 397n

  Furman, Bess, 117

  Gabon, 226, 229, 281, 285, 314

  Gage, Henry, 76–77, 92

  Gallo, Robert, 200, 204–5, 205, 207–10, 221, 400n

  Garrett, Laurie, 170, 178, 191, 217, 235

  Garry, Robert, 296

  Gates, Bill, 366

  Gaudiosi, Albert, 155, 393n

  gay community, 194–97, 211, 213, 215, 233, 363

  gay liberation movement, 199, 217, 218

  stigmatization of, 217–18, 220–21

  gay-related immune deficiency (GRID), 217, 220–21

  GenBank, 260, 261

  genetics, 7

  George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, 99, 129–30, 135, 140, 392n

  Germany, “parrot fever” pandemic 1929–1930 in, 126

  germ-conscious regimes, 114

  germ panic, 114–15

  germ-theory paradigm, 6–7, 37, 39

  Gimenez stain, 179

  globalization, 227, 234, 272–73, 311–12, 359, 362–63

  Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), 257, 274, 284

  Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), 257

  global trade, 15

  gloves, disposable, 253

  Goddard, Morrill, 107, 114

  Gola, 278

  Goldwater, Barry, 170

  gonorrhea, 196

  Goodpasture, Ernest, 380n

  gorillas, 285

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  Graitcer, Phil, 150–51, 154

  Gram-negative bacteria, 7, 26, 35, 112, 178, 186

  Granjeiro, João, 339

  Great Lakes Naval Station, 49

  Grmek, Mirko, 210, 400n

  Guangdong, China, 240–41, 248, 257, 258, 270, 274

  Guangzhou, China, 240–41, 247, 252, 273

  Guéckédou, Guinea, 278–79, 281, 283, 284, 291, 292–93, 300, 312–13, 315, 316

  Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), 177, 327, 328–29, 330, 338, 341, 343

  Guinea, 229

  canceled air service to, 303, 304

  distrust of foreign medical aid in, 291–92

  Ebola in, 277–78, 281, 282, 284–85, 290–91, 295, 312–13, 314, 315–16, 363–64, 414n

  Ministry of Health, 279, 283

  Gutiérrez, Horace, 67, 80

  Guy’s Hospital, 51

  Haddow, Alexander, 325, 349

  Haiti, 199, 201, 213, 220, 232, 233, 363, 402n

  Haitian emigrants, 220, 232–33

  Haitians, 221

  Halstead, William Steward, 32

  Hammack, Royo, 67–68

  Hammon, Bill, 391n

  Hanoi, Vietnam, 250, 256, 273, 362

  Harbin, China, 77, 79, 84

  Harrison, William Henry, 21

  Hartl, Gregor, 284

  Hartz Mountain Distribution Company, 142

  Harvard Medical School, 29

  Hatfield, Daniel S., 119

  healers, 288, 293–94, 309–10, 364

  Health Canada, 268

  “healthy carriers,” 6

  Hearst newspapers, 83, 106

  Hektoen, Ludvig, 125

  heliotrope cyanosis, 31, 381–82n

  Helms, Jesse, 200–201

  hemagglutinin (HA), 54

  Hemo-Caribbean, 232–33

  hemoglobin, 35

  hemolyticus bacteria, 20

  hemophiliacs, 212, 213, 214, 220, 221, 232–33

  Hemophilus influenzae, 27n, 150

  hemorrhagic fever, 280, 281, 282, 283, 335

  Hendra, 272

  hepatitis B, 196, 197, 216–17, 228, 399n

  hepatitis C, 228, 231

  Herald Examiner, 81, 83

  herbicides, 170, 320

  herd immunity, 13

  herpes, 195, 399n

  Heymann, David, 154, 257, 274, 290, 336–38

  Hib meningitis, 379n

  H. influenzae, 379n

  Histoplasma, 155

  Ho, David, 198

  Hoak, Edward, 146–48, 151

  Hofstadter, Richard, 170

  Hong Kong, China, 237–42, 243–48

  bubonic plague in, 239

  cholera in, 239

  Hong Kong Department of Health, 252, 255, 268, 405n

  ideal breeding ground for mosquito-borne diseases, 238

  medical facilities in, 241–42

  SARS in, 243–57, 258, 260, 261, 262, 266–70

  smallpox in, 239

  topography and climate of, 238

  typhoid in, 239

  “Hong Kong” fever, 238

  “Hong Kong” flu, 57, 245

  Hong Kong University, School of Public Health, 242

  Hooper, Edward, 225

  Hooper, George Williams, 129–30

  Hoover, Herbert, bird embargo by, 121, 128, 137, 139

  hospitals. See also specific hospitals

  enforced hospitalization, 5

  hospital hygiene practices, 8

  Legionnaires’ disease in, 185

  hosts, parasitic organisms and, 29–30

  Hudson, Rock, 212

  human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 191, 198, 199, 200, 201, 206, 207, 361

  cell-destroying properties of, 208

  as “cell-killing virus,” 400n

  confirmatory test (“Western blot”), 208

  conspiracy theories and, 206

  contagiousness of, 280–81

  correct nomenclature of, 206

  currently circulating strains of, 224–25, 226–27, 229–30

  environmental causes and factors, 231–32

  evolution of, 225–28, 229–30, 232

  HIV-1, 224–27, 229–31, 404n

  HIV-2, 224–27, 229–30

  HIV progenitor virus, 13

  importation from Haiti to United States, 199

  latency and slow onset of, 201–2, 203, 223, 363

  pandemic strains of, 227–28

  phylogenetic analysis of, 224–27, 229–30, 232

  prototype screening test (or ELISA), 208, 221, 223

  simian progenitor of HIV-1, 404n

  subgroups and subtypes of, 225, 232–33

  transmission of, 229–32

  Human Rights Watch, 356–57

  Human T-cell Leukemia Virus (HTLV), 205, 206, 208–9, 210

  Human T-cell Leukemia Virus II (HTLV II), 205, 206

  Human T-cell Leukemia Virus III (HTLV III), 207–8, 207n, 222

  Hussein, Saddam, 251

  hybrid viruses, 245

  hypervigilance, 11

  hypodermic needles, 199, 228–29

  hysteria, 11

  Iceland, plague in, 387n

  immigrants, blamed for diseases, 5

  immune systems

  compromised, 194

  of hosts, 29–30

  immune deficiency, 193–94, 197, 198, 205, 208

  immune response to “Spanish flu,” 59–60

  microbes and, 8

  of new draftees in US Army, 32–33

  old age and, 8

  phagocytes, 20

  immunization. See vaccines

  immunological “blind spot,” 60

  immunological factors, 8–9

  immunology, 39–40, 367

  index cases, 218–19, 218n

  India

  plague in, 78

  Zika in, 326

  Indiana Memorial Union, 183

  Indonesia, Zika in, 326

  infectious diseases. See also specific diseases

  continuing threat of, 198–99, 233

  dormant infections and, 8

  identification of new since 1944, 365

  influenza, 4–62, 63, 138n, 335, 361, 380n

  “Asian flu,” 56, 245

  avian influenza, 4, 10, 55–56, 59, 243–48, 250, 254, 257, 274, 284, 367, 381–82n, 405n

  Bacillus influenzae, 26–27, 34, 35–40, 42, 43, 48–49, 58, 113

  bacteriology paradigm of, 45

  chick embryo cultivation of, 46, 46n, 61

  cyanosis and, 46–47

  derivation of the term, 25n

  epidemiology of, 61

  etiology of, 26–27

  as “filter-passer,” 7–8, 42, 44–45

  flu immunization campaign, 175–77

  H1, 54, 59

  H1N1 virus, 149, 154, 367, 368

  H2, 54

  H2N2 virus, 245

  H3, 54, 59

  H3N2 virus, 245

  H5, 244

  H5N1 virus, 4, 10, 55–56, 59, 243–48, 250, 367, 405n

  H9N2 virus, 246–47

  H. influenzae, 379n

  “Hong Kong” flu, 57, 245

  hybrid viruses, 245

  incubation period of, 151

  influenza coeli, 25n

  inoculations for, 43–44

  member of Orthomyxoviridae family, 53

  Mexican swine flu and, 4, 367, 368

  morbidity and mortality patterns, 61–62

  mortality by age at death, 52–53

  N1, 54

  N2, 54

  pandemics, 25–26, 56–57 (see also specific pandemics)

  pneumococcal bacteria (Steptococcus pneumoniae) and, 20

  Russian influenza pandemic, 26–27, 37–38, 57, 59, 150

  “Spanish flu,” 4, 7–8, 26, 28–31, 33, 35, 38–39, 42–62, 67, 80, 149, 150, 246, 366–68, 381–82n, 405–6n

  strains of, 13

  swine flu, 4, 10, 149, 150–51, 154, 169, 175–77, 187�
�88, 367, 368

  transmission of, 26–27

  in United Kingdom, 4

  in United States, 4

  in US Army, 24–25, 27–29, 33–34

  in US Navy, 29–31

  vaccines against, 7, 37, 43–44, 46, 46n, 48–49, 149, 150–51

  viral etiology of, 7–8, 36–37, 45–46, 54, 58–59, 113

  influenza coeli, 25n

  insecticides, 327, 340–41, 344, 345–46

  Institute of Medicine, 191, 311

  Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Guangzhou, 248

  Instituto Aggeu Magalhães (IAM), 343–44, 352

  Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco (IMIP), 331

  integrase, 204

  interleukin-2, 205, 208

  International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses, 207

  international health workers, 226

  International Plague Conference, Mukden, 1911, 78

  International Sanitary Convention, 94

  intravenous drug use, 211, 212, 213, 220, 221

  Ipitunga, Brazil, 353–57

  Ivanovski, Dmitry, 40

  Jaboatão dos Guararapes, 317–18, 343, 347, 352

  Jackson, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall,” 21

  Jackson Memorial Hospital, 220

  Japanese encephalitis, 242–43

  John F. Kennedy Medical Center, 301–2

  Johns Hopkins University, 32

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 213

  Kailahun, Sierra Leone, 296, 298, 299, 309

  Kalmey, Edith, 103–4

  Kalmey, Lee, 103–4

  Kalmey, Lillian, 103–4, 117, 120

  Kalmey family, 103–4, 108, 117, 119

  Kamano, Luisey, 293

  Kamara, Shakie, 306

  Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), 196, 215, 217, 218, 220, 233

  Kellogg, William, 76–77, 79, 90, 97

  Kenema, Sierra Leone, 294–300, 309

  Kenema General Hospital, 282, 294–300, 302

  Khan, C-Ray, 300

  Khan, Sheik Humarr Khan, 294–300

  Kikwit, DRC, 289–90, 364

  Ebola in, 314

  Kikwit General Hospital, 290

  Kinshasa, Zaire, 221, 222, 223, 225, 228, 231, 288, 289, 290, 364

  Kinyoun, Joseph, 76, 92

  Kirasato, Shibashuro, 27

  Kissi, 278, 287, 291

  Kissidougo, Guinea, 278–79

  Kitchen, Stuart F., 325

  Klasing, Amanda, 357

  Klein, Edward, 38

  “knock-me-down-fever,” 24–25

  Koch, Robert, 6–7, 26, 27, 37, 39, 113, 377–78n

  Köhler, Georges, 202

  Koindu, Sierra Leone, 293

  Kokomo, Indiana, 214

  Kokroma, Ernest Bai, 300

  Kono, 287

  Krumwiede, 127

  kuru, 203

  Kwan Sui Chu, 256, 263

  Kwong Wah Hospital, 248, 249

  Laboratory of Tumor and Cell Biology, 205

  Lacy, William, 89

  Ladies Home Journal, 114

  Lagos, Nigeria, 302–3, 311

  la grippe. See influenza

  Laidlaw, Patrick, 54

  Lajun, Francisca Concha, 63, 65

 

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