Infectious diseases along the Silk Roads : the spread of parasitoses and culture past and today

Infectious diseases along the Silk Roads : the spread of parasitoses and culture past and today / Heinz Mehlhorn, Xiaoying Wu, Zhongdao Wu, editors.

The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civilizations past and today. Compiled by an international team of subject authors, this book includes two themed parts. Readers are first introduced into hist...

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Other Authors: Mehlhorn, Heinz (Editor), Wu, Xiaoying (Editor), Wu, Zhongdao, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2023]
Series:Parasitology research monographs ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > Silk Road > History.
Parasitology > Silk Road > History.
Communicable diseases
Parasitology
Asia > Silk Road
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I The Silk Roads: Past and Future
  • Network Expansion and Disease Spread along the Former and Present Straits of the Silk Road(S) and Other International Straits
  • Belt and Road Initiative Revisited
  • Economic Development and Health Care Status in Silk Road Countries
  • Traditional Medicines Along the BRI Countries
  • Part II Parasite and Disease Spread Along the Silk Roads: A Review to Date
  • Infectious Diseases in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Countries
  • Disease Details on Plague (Black Death), Cholera, Brucellosis, and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Along the Silk Road(s) of Former and Recent Times
  • Plague Disease: From Asia to Europe and Back along the Silk Road
  • Dengue along the Silk Road
  • Intestinal Parasites at the Xuanquanzhi Relay Station on the Silk Road 2000 Years Ago
  • Dicrocoelium in Iran: From Bronze Age to the Twenty-First Century
  • Development of Vaccine to Stop Endemic of Hydatid Disease and Promote Connectivity of the Belt and Road Initiative
  • Index.

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