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Monthly Archives: November 2011. Mapping Smallpox, Malaria, and Leprosy. November 29, 2011. Contagion by Haisam Hussein of Lapham's Quarterly (Click the map to enlarge). I love looking at infection maps. Hat-tip to Michael Walsh at Germscape. For finding this map. There is a lot of information on this map and unfortunately any text that might have come with it at. Malaria deaths in the United States, 1870 census. Over two centuries ago. Did India and China Escape the Black Death? November 26, 2011. The B...
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Samuel N. Crane. New York, NY. Samuel N. Crane. Comparative Biology as Data Science. March 15, 2015. Alaska brown bear, specimen measurement chart,. AMNH Digital Special Collections. I recently spoke at the American Museum of Natural History on the topic of alternative academic careers for biologists. The talk was organized by the Museum’s graduate school. For its current graduate students and postdocs. Also on the agenda was Eric Vieira. Anyway, here are the slides: http:/ rpubs.com/snc/compbio. Once ag...
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Leprosy in Medieval Scandinavia | Contagions
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Leprosy in Medieval Scandinavia. November 4, 2012. Medieval leper’s bell from Denmark. Leprosy is an ancient disease. References to leprosy and the social stigma attached to it go back to 600 BC from India and in the Old Testament. However, like the plague, it was not until relatively late (1873) that the term leprosy became attached to a particular microbe,. Although some medieval descriptions suggest. Bioarchaeologists have been able to identify skeletal changes suggestive of. SNP types in Europe and A...
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A Migration Age Anglo-Saxon Leper | Contagions
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A Migration Age Anglo-Saxon Leper. May 24, 2015. Paleomicrobiology and isotopic analysis has the ability to completely change what we know of past infectious diseases. A study published this month on a fifth century Anglo-Saxon skeleton is one of the most complete I have read. Lesions on skeletons found at Great Chesterfield in Essex, England, suggested possible leprosy. To confirm this diagnosis, they chose one skeleton that is nearly complete and in good shape for further analysis. Is unique among othe...
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Fleshing out Yersinia pestis | Contagions
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Fleshing out Yersinia pestis. April 7, 2013. Up until a few months ago there were a few representative samples of the. The Core-Genome and the Pan-Genome. Even for a bacterium like. Have many more accessory genes than core genes. With. The more specimens that are sequenced, the larger the accessory genome gets with no end in sight. Combining all of the genes found in. Even so, the tree below represents only the main branches. Click to enlarge, (Cui et al, PNAS, 2013). Gaining and Loosing Diversity. They ...
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Plasmodium knowlesi: A New Ancient Malaria Parasite | Contagions
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Plasmodium knowlesi: A New Ancient Malaria Parasite. March 29, 2015. There are over a hundred different species of the malaria-causing. Parasites in reptiles, birds and mammals. Being so widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, zoonotic transfer of. Has come at humans from multiple different sources. Is as old as. Cover image the phases of. From the April 2013 issue of. Diagnosis is complicated by the histological similarity between. Local transmission have been identified in Borneo, with only 8 cases of.
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An Anniversary year for Natural Disasters: 1815, 1665, and 1315 | Contagions
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An Anniversary year for Natural Disasters: 1815, 1665, and 1315. April 30, 2015. Mount Tambora Volcano, NASA image (public domain). Just a few weeks ago there was a minor splash in the news to mark the 200th anniversary of the eruption of Tambora. The Year Without a Summer. By historian William Klingman and meteorologist Nicholas Klingman (2013). If I like it, maybe you will hear more about it later this year. Great Plague of London, 1665. This year is also the 350th anniversary of the Great London Plague.
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Contours of the Black Death Cemetery at Charterhouse Square, London | Contagions
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Contours of the Black Death Cemetery at Charterhouse Square, London. May 10, 2015. Excavations for the Crossrail Extension project discovered the second major Black Death cemetery in London in 2013. This week the first peer-reviewed publication of findings from the site appeared (in press). As a rescue excavation in the midst of a construction project, the site had to be quickly surveyed for the extent of the cemetery and this is what is contained in this publication. Dick, H. C., Pringle, J....Plague Di...
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Spring Reading | Contagions
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June 17, 2015. Yet to be determined. This really isn’t a peripheral issue. Every writer of the first pandemic was involved in this transformation (winners and losers) in some way and it effected how they wrote about the plague and other calamities. So I have a lot of reading to do; below is a start and a few other things that caught my attention. Marilyn Dunn. (2010). The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, c. 497- c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlif. 16), 429 434. Sarris, P. (2002). ...02), ...
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