Q fever is named not for a place but for the word query - Australian researcher Edward Holbrook Derrick coined it in 1937 for an unidentified febrile illness among Brisbane abattoir workers. The cause was not known until Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Mavis Freeman isolated the bacterium later that year.
Coxiella burnetii was originally isolated from a Dermacentor andersoni tick in 1935, but in modern outbreaks human Q fever is almost…
Bourbon virus is named for Bourbon County, Kansas, where in 2014 a previously healthy farmer with a history of tick bite died 11 days…
The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981 by Willy Burgdorfer at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, who was…
Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut, where in 1975 two mothers - Polly Murray and Judith Mensch - logged a cluster of…
Tularemia, caused by Francisella tularensis, can be acquired six different ways: tick bite, deer fly bite, handling infected rabbit…
Powassan virus is named for the town of Powassan, Ontario, where in September 1958 virologists D.M. McLean and W.L. Donohue isolated it…