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Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: Parasitology Research Monographs, 3
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Global warming and globalization are the buzzwords of our time.
They have nearly reached a religious status and those who deny
their existence are considered modern heretics. Nevertheless, the
earth has become an overcrowded village, traversable within a
single day. Thus it is hardly surprising that besides persons and
goods also agents of disease are easily transported daily from one
end of the world to the other, threatening the health and lives of
billions of humans and their animals. Agents of diseases (prions,
viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites) are not only transmitted by
body contact or direct exchange of bodily fluids, but also by means
of vectors which belong to the groups of licking or blood-sucking
arthropods (mites, ticks, insects) that live close to humans and
their houses. Without a doubt the recently accelerating
globalization supports the import of agents of disease into
countries where they never had been or where they had long since
been eradicated, leading to a false sense of living on a "safe
island." These newly imported or reintroduced diseases - called
"emerging diseases" - may lead to severe outbreaks in cases where
the countries are not prepared to combat them, or in cases where
viruses are introduced that cannot be controlled by medications or
vaccines. Arthropods are well known vectors for the spread of
diseases. Thus their invasion from foreign countries and their
spreading close to human dwellings must be blocked everywhere (in
donor and receptor countries) using safe and effective measures.
This book presents reviews on examples of such arthropod-borne
emerging diseases that lurk on the fringes of our crowded
megacities. The following topics show that there is an ongoing
invasion of potential vectors and that control measures must be
used now in order to avoid disastrous outbreaks of mass diseases.
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