Reviewed historical review
Tognotti. Lessons from the History of Quarantine, from Plague to Influenza A
Source date: 2013-02 · Checked: 2026-09-08
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Maritime quarantine
How did ships, ports, and quarantine institutions shape exposure and public-health responses?
Mediterranean and Atlantic quarantine histories, with Grosse Île as a documented institutional case. This is a selective reading collection, not a systematic review.
Search strategy and review trail · 2026-09-08
Targeted web discovery and source chaining, using the existing research project as a starting point. These strings record this curation pass; search-engine results change over time.
site.cdc.gov Tognotti lessons history quarantine plague influenza 2013 19 2 254site.parks.canada.ca Grosse Ile 1847 typhus 5424Source chaining from the existing Maritime Disease Atlas bibliography: Lind and Booker.
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Reviewed designation record
Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site — Parks Canada
Source date: not established · Checked: 2026-09-08
An institutional site history is distinct from a nominal death register.
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James Lind. A Treatise of the Scurvy
Source date: 1753 · Checked: 2026-09-08
Digitized primary work identified in the existing Maritime source registry; individual passages have not been re-reviewed for this dossier.
Retrieved metadata
John Booker. Maritime Quarantine: The British Experience, c.1650–1900
Source date: 2007 · Checked: 2026-09-08
Book identified in the existing project; this entry is a research lead, not a claim of full-text review.
Curated dossier
Revolutionary War smallpox
How did smallpox change military decisions, and what does the surviving correspondence establish?
Boston, the Canada campaign, and the Continental Army’s 1777 inoculation policy, with winter encampments as comparative context.
Search strategy and review trail · 2026-09-08
Targeted web discovery and source chaining, using the existing research project as a starting point. These strings record this curation pass; search-engine results change over time.
site.founders.archives.gov Washington William Shippen 6 February 1777 inoculatedsite.founders.archives.gov John Adams Abigail Adams June 1776 smallpox Canada armysite.nps.gov Valley Forge 1700 2000 disease deaths Morristown winter 1779 1780 smallpox
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Reviewed transcription
John Adams to Samuel Cooper, 2 July 1776
Source date: 1776-07-02 · Checked: 2026-09-08
A contemporary appraisal of military danger is not a mortality estimate.
Reviewed source text
George Washington to William Shippen, Jr., 6 February 1777
Source date: 1777-02-06 · Checked: 2026-09-08
Reviewed source text
George Washington to David Grier, 12 March 1777: smallpox inoculation letter
Source date: 1777-03-12 · Checked: 2026-09-08
Reviewed institutional historical synthesis
Smallpox: George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Source date: not established · Checked: 2026-09-08
Reviewed source text
What Happened at Valley Forge — National Park Service
Source date: not established · Checked: 2026-09-08
Reviewed institutional summary
Winter Encampments — Morristown National Historical Park
Source date: not established · Checked: 2026-09-08
Its roughly 100 deaths at Morristown are not classified as a disease-only count.
Curated dossier
Viking paleodemography
What can different skeletal and archaeological samples tell us about health, age at death, and movement?
Ribe, Birka, and Varnhem as contrasting study designs; selected North Atlantic and British sites as examples of chronology and sample selection.
Search strategy and review trail · 2026-09-08
Targeted web discovery and source chaining, using the existing research project as a starting point. These strings record this curation pass; search-engine results change over time.
Ribe cemetery 943 skeletons 38.5 38.6 medieval lifespan studysite.journals.plos.org Varnhem 0295282 171 133 38 teeth 3293site.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Birka female Viking warrior genomics 2017 581 Hedenstierna Jonsonsite.nature.com L Anse aux Meadows 1021 2021 evidence Europeans AmericasWeymouth Ridgeway Hill 54 skeletons Oxford Archaeology Viking burial report
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Reviewed abstract
A millennium of population change in pre-modern Danish Ribe
Source date: 2019 · Checked: 2026-09-08
The 943 adult skeletons span Viking, medieval, and post-medieval periods. Period-specific sample counts require the full tables.
Reviewed methods and discussion
Hedenstierna-Jonson et al. A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics
Source date: 2017-09-08 · Checked: 2026-09-08
Genomic sex, grave context, and an individual’s participation in combat are different inferences.
Reviewed full text
Bertilsson et al. Caries prevalence and other dental pathological conditions in Vikings from Varnhem, Sweden
Source date: 2023-12-13 · Checked: 2026-09-08
Report individual and tooth denominators separately; the sample is selected by preservation of jaws.
Reviewed article
Kuitems et al. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
Source date: 2021-10-20 · Checked: 2026-09-08
A precise date for worked wood does not establish a settlement duration or disease transmission.
Reviewed abstract
Borreggine et al. Sea-level rise in Southwest Greenland as a contributor to Viking abandonment
Source date: 2023 · Checked: 2026-09-08
An environmental model concerns a potential contributor to later Norse abandonment, not an observed epidemic.
Reviewed repository description and introductory chapter
Loe et al. Given to the Ground: A Viking Age Mass Grave on Ridgeway Hill, Weymouth
Source date: 2014 · Checked: 2026-09-08
A mass execution is a selected mortality assemblage; it cannot estimate the population’s usual mortality.
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