happenings”: Ross (1916), 206.
134. “so little mathematical work should have been done”: Ross (1916), 204–5.
141. “This indicates,” they wrote confidently, “that human P. falciparum”: Liu et al. (2010), 424.
141. “a monophyletic lineage within the gorilla P. falciparum radiation”: Liu et al. (2010), 423.
143. “One of the most important problems in epidemiology”: Kermack and McKendrick (1927), 701.
144. “Small increases of the infectivity rate”: Kermack and McKendrick (1927), 721.
146. “very small changes in the essential transmission factors”: MacDonald (1953), 880.
146. “the number of infections distributed in a community”: MacDonald (1956), 375.
147. “It all but destroyed malariology”: Harrison (1978), 258.
151. “The effect was remarkable”: Desowitz (1993), 129.
152. “This occurrence,” wrote a quartet of the doctors involved: Chin et al. (1965), 865.
161. “it is possible that we are setting the stage for a switch”: Cox-Singh and Singh (2008), 408.
IV. Dinner at the Rat Farm
169. “hospitalized for treatment of severe, acute respiratory syndrome”: World Health Organization (2006), 257.
169. “During the past week,” it said, “WHO has received reports”: World Health Organization (2006), 259–60.
171. described simply as “a local government official”: Abraham (2007), 30.
171. labeling it “atypical pneumonia”: Abraham (2007), 34.
172. “Population estimates of R0 can obscure”: Lloyd-Smith et al. (2005), 355.
173. “Each time they began to insert the tube”: Abraham (2007), 37.
182. alarming rumors about “a strange contagious disease”: World Health Organization (2006), 5.
184. “The first thing going through our minds”: Normile (2003), 886.
185. announcing this new coronavirus as “a possible cause”: Peiris (2003), 1319.
186. “We were too cautious,” one of them said later: Enserink (2003), 294.
187. “Southern Chinese have always noshed more widely”: Greenfeld (2006), 10.
189. “The animals are packed in tiny spaces”: Lee et al. (2004), 12.
191. “from another, as yet unknown, animal source”: Guan et al. (2003), 278.
195. “An infectious consignment of bats”: Li et al. (2005), 678.
206. “humankind has had a lucky escape”: Weiss and McLean (2004), 1139.
V. The Deer, the Parrot, and the Kid Next Door
211. known initially as “abattoir fever”: Sexton (1991), 93.
212. an example of “public hysteria” commensurate with flagellation: The Washington Post, January 26, 1930, 1.
214. “three died in agony”: Van Rooyen (1955), 4.
214. “The year 1929 marked a turning point”: Van Rooyen (1955), 5.
215. “tall with a gnarled Lincolnian face”: De Kruif (1932), 178.
218. “If the young cockatoo, after capture”: Burnet and MacNamara (1936), 88.
219. “a distinct clinical entity”: Derrick (1937), 281.
219. “a filterable virus,” meaning an agent so small: Burnet and Freeman (1937), 299.
220. “Most significant discoveries just grow on one”: Burnet (1967), 1067.
220. “From that moment, there was no doubt”: Burnet (1967), 1068.
220. “Problems of nomenclature arose”: Burnet (1967), 1068.
221. “the Nine Mile agent”: McDade (1990), 12.
221. “sharp pains in the eyeballs”: McDade (1990), 16.
221. “There is no disease to match Q fever”: Burnet (1967), 1068.
222. “One of the more bizarre episodes”: Burnet (1967), 1068.
223. “there was no drop of rain”: Karagiannis et al. (2009), 1289.
226. The other was a “hobby farm”: Karagiannis et al. (2009), 1286, 1288.
228. “windborne transmission” as the most likely source: Karagiannis et al. (2009), 1292.
231. “a filterable virus,” a microbe so tiny: Burnet (1940), 19.
233. “I just don’t know if I can watch it”: Enserink (2010), 266.
234. “were on the whole too busy to think of anything but”: Burnet (1940), 2–3.
235. “Other workers with an appreciation of modern developments”: Burnet (1940), 3.
235. “The parasitic mode of life is essentially similar”: Burnet (1940), 8.
236. “It will be clear, however,” Burnet wrote: Burnet (1940), 12.
236. “Like many other infectious diseases, psittacosis”: Burnet (1940), 19.
237. “those cockatoos, left to a natural life in the wild”: Burnet (1940), 23.
237. “It is a conflict between man and his parasites”: Burnet (1940), 23.
238. such a thing as “chronic Lyme disease”: Feder et al. (2007), 1422.
238. “No convincing biologic evidence exists”: IDSA News, Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 2006, 2.
239. “post-Lyme disease syndrome” was another matter: IDSA News, Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 2006, 1.
239. “by allowing individuals with financial interests”: Quoted in press release, Office of the Attorney General of Connecticut, May 1, 2008, 2.
239. “no convincing evidence for the existence”: Quoted in press release, IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America), April 22, 2010, 2.
241. began calling the syndrome “Lyme arthritis”: Steere et al. (1977a), 7.
242. were now calling “Lyme disease”: Steere and Malawista (1979), 730.
243. “a disease of the past,” no longer justifying: Burgdorfer (1986), 934.
244. “No longer did we hear, ‘get out’”: Burgdorfer (1986), 936.
244. later jovially called the “lymelight”: Burgdorfer (1986), 936.
245. “Dammin’s northeastern deer ixodid”: Ostfeld (2011), 26.
246. “The notion that Lyme disease risk is closely tied”: Ostfeld (2011), 22.
246. One
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