tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33603383.post1544963277722889406..comments2023-10-30T00:46:35.351-08:00Comments on The Saltonstalls -Patrick, Zoya, Nora, Stuey, Sheba, Tank & Jake: Quinine and ACZoya, Patrick, Nora and Stuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05058223440486466376noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33603383.post-42493004248546238792011-02-08T03:48:43.035-09:002011-02-08T03:48:43.035-09:00‘ . . [the Cuban physician] Dr Carlos Juan Finlay ...‘ . . [the Cuban physician] Dr Carlos Juan Finlay . . correctly surmised that it was not the worsened “miasma”, but rather the peak in the population of the female mosquito, Stegomyia fasciata or Aedes aegypti (Finlay referred to it as the Culex mosquito), during the hot, wet summer months that sparked the epidemics. <br /><br />In 1881, Finlay presented his results in The Annals of the Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Havana. The medical community scoffed at the notion of human-to-human transmission via mosquito inoculation, incredulous that such a tiny insect could be responsible for so many deaths. History records that his early supporters included only his loyal and gifted Trinidadian wife, Adela Shine, and his Cuban physician disciple, Claudio Delgado.<br /><br />Over the next twenty years, Finlay extended his clinical observations and conducted human studies to prove his hypothesis . . ’<br /><i><br />Medicine in Stamps - Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915): of mosquitoes and yellow fever. </i>Tan SY, MD, JD and Sung H, MD; Singapore Med J 2008; 49 (5) : 370.<br />http://smj.sma.org.sg/4905/4905ms1.pdfrob's unclehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03001074396029714388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33603383.post-5203109069117243392011-02-05T19:00:09.605-09:002011-02-05T19:00:09.605-09:00One thing I always appreciate about Alaska, even i...One thing I always appreciate about Alaska, even if the mosquitoes are terrible, is that there are are no freaky insect-borne diseases!<br /><br />When we were in Ecuador a couple of years ago, we chose not to take anti-malaria medication because we were only planning to spend 2-3 days in a potential malaria area. My doctor thought that since we would be in a city for those 2-3 days we would probably be fine, as long as we stayed in a hotel with air conditioning. Of course, we ended up being fine, but I was TERRIFIED every time I heard a mosquito buzzing at night - it was hard to sleep!Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03926117389223794697noreply@blogger.com