Lifting the impenetrable veil : from yellow fever to Ebola hemorrhagic fever and SARS / Charles H. Calisher, Ph.D.

Fort Collins, Colorado : Rockpile Press, 2014.

xviii, 540 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Revised.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-528) and index.

Foreword -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction : what is arbovirology? -- From unsubstantiated opinions to scientific discipline -- Yellow fever : the "King of Terrors" -- A door is opened : a breakthrough in yellow fever control -- Development of laboratory procedures for work with yellow fever virus -- Arbovirology comes of age -- Seminal discoveries -- Learning from cases, clusters, outbreaks, and epidemics -- The arbovirologic community : a collaborative endeavor -- Entomologists, field work, and virus discovery -- Viral taxonomy -- New laws, administrators, and other roadblocks -- Biogeography -- Viral hemorrhagic fevers, bat viruses, and rabies-related viruses -- The diverse transmission cycles of arboviruses and other viruses -- Taxonomy and specialization in arbovirology -- Some personal recollections of people and travels -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Suggested readings -- Index.