What's New Archive - 2012

Admiral J.C. Harvey, Jr., Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, recently visited the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE), Jacksonville, FL where he toured the Center and was briefed on the Deployed Warfighter Protection Program (DWFP) and NECE's contributions towards producing novel solutions to reduce the risk of military personnel to diseases transmitted by blood feeding arthropods.

NECE team with ADM Harvey (from l-r): HM2 Dante Benedicto, HM1 Jason Francona, HM3 Darius Davis, LTJG Noel Cote, ADM Harvey, HM1 Brian Walker, HM2 Michael Denson, LCDR Carl Doud, HMC Daniel Hanaczewski and CDR Eric Hoffman

ADM Harvey operating a thermal fogger with EN1 Raul Pomalescordero

During the early 1980s, Michael W. Hastriter, LTC USA (retired), compiled a global bibliography of nearly 1,500 citations of papers on chigger-borne rickettsiosis (scrub typhus, tsutsugamushi disease; causative agent Orientia (formerly Rickettsia) tsutsugamushi) that, at the time, was thought to be complete through 1982 but was never published.  Until now, the Hastriter bibliography has existed only as two printouts from an ancient tape reel that can no longer be read.  For many years, the AFPMB had hoped to retype this bibliography, eliminating abbreviations, correcting a number of minor typographical errors, and perhaps adding abstracts.  However, it is now clear that our office will never have the time for such an endeavor, so, with the compiler’s approval, we are releasing his work as a PDF – a searchable scan of the original that we hope will prove valuable to those seeking early literature on an agent that, although little known in the West, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in East and Southeast Asia, the western Pacific, northern Australia, and the Indian subcontinent.  To facilitate use of this bibliography, we have also included a geographic index, a subject index, and a list of serial abbreviations.  Mike Hastriter is currently a research associate specializing in fleas (Siphonaptera) at the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.