The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. Foy B.D. et al., ‘Probable Non–Vector-borne Transmission of
    Zika Virus, Colorado, USA’, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011.

  2. Counotte M.J. et al., ‘Sexual transmission of Zika virus and
    other flaviviruses: A living systematic review’, PLOS Medicine,
    2018; Folkers K.M., ‘Zika: The Millennials’ S.T.D.?’, New York
    Times, 20 August 2016.

  3. Others independently reached the same conclusion. Sources:
    Yakob L. et al., ‘Low risk of a sexually-transmitted Zika virus
    outbreak’, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016; Althaus C.L.
    and Low N., ‘How Relevant Is Sexual Transmission of Zika
    Virus?’ PLOS Medicine, 2016.

  4. Background on early / transmission from: Worobey et
    al. ‘1970s and “Patient 0” -1 genomes illuminate early /
    history in North America’, Nature, 2016.; McKay R.A., ‘“Patient
    Zero”: The Absence of a Patient’s View of the Early North
    American Epidemic’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine,
    2014.

  5. This was before the CDC name changed to Centers for Disease
    Control and Prevention in 1992.

  6. McKay R.A. “Patient Zero”: The Absence of a Patient’s View of
    the Early North American Epidemic. Bull Hist Med, 2014.

  7. Sapatkin D., ‘: The truth about Patient Zero’, The
    Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 May 2013.

  8. WHO. Mali case, ‘Ebola imported from Guinea: Ebola situation
    assessment’, 10 November 2014.

  9. Robert A. et al., ‘Determinants of transmission risk during the
    late stage of the West African Ebola epidemic’, American Journal
    of Epidemiology, 2019.

  10. Nagel T., ‘Moral Luck’, 1979.

  11. Potterat J.J. et al., ‘Gonorrhoea as a Social Disease’, Sexually
    Transmitted Diseases, 1985.

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