What's New?

Charley Patton and His Mississippi Boweavil Blues by R. K. D. Peterson.
Joseph Conlon has contributed two articles: Vectors and War: "Desert Storm" and The Historical Impact of Epidemic Typhus.
Dr. Stanton Cope (Captain, U.S. Navy) has contributed the slide presentation: Yellow Fever: The Scourge Revealed with accompanying text.
Dr. David Tschanz has contributed two articles, Yellow Fever and the Strategy of the Mexican- American War and Typhus Fever on the Eastern Front in World War I.
Dr. R. L. Jacobson, Dept. of Parasitology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem has kindly provided a disease profile for leishmaniasis. Check it out.
Check out the article, The Role of Insects as Biological Weapons.
Be sure to read the article, Historical Natural History: Insects and the Civil War, by G. L. Miller.
The U.S. Navy Disease Vector Ecology and Control Center has kindly provided a disease profile for lymphatic filariasis. Check it out.
Not only does the Diseases and the Insects That Transmit Them section have profiles of diseases and insects, but it now has an excellent introductory chapter by L. G. Higley, L. L. Karr, and L. P. Pedigo.
Suggested Readings (references to books on history and disease with pictures of the book jacket and some reviews and subject descriptions)
Be sure to check out the article, Insects, Disease, and Military History: The Napoleonic Campaigns and Historical Perception.