"Back to the Jungle": investigating rats, grass, scrub typhus, and plantations in Malaya, 1924 - 1974 by Greatrex, Jack Edward

“…Interwar research, I show, explained the incidence of the disease through conjunctions of rats, mites, plantations, lalang grass, and "jungle." In the process, interwar researchers bridged a novel scientific vocabulary centering on disease "reservoirs" with older suspicions of plantations enabling "pests," as well as with a later, explicitly ecological understanding of infectious disease. …”
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The risk of urban yellow fever resurgence in Aedes-infested American cities by Massad, Eduardo, Amaku, Marcos, Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra, Struchiner, Claudio José, Lopez, Luis Fernandez, Coelho, Giovanini, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento

“…Although no new urban cycle of YF was reported in the Americas since the end of an Aedes eradication programme in the late 1950s, the high number of non-vaccinated individuals that visit endemic areas, that is, South American jungles where the sylvatic cycle of YF is transmitted by canopy mosquitoes, and return to Aedes-infested urban areas, increases the risk of resurgence of the urban cycle of YF. …”
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