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 history naming, former, present and future routes of the Silk Road, representing the longest trade way and culture diffuser in the world. The second part contains the main book focus and addresses medical research as well as individual diseases and parasite groups from the region in detail. By drawing an arc between the past and present disease situation, the authors trace how parasites and vectors spread around the globe, and what impact infectious diseases had and will have upon human civilizations.
Through its interdisciplinary character this book will be enjoyed by interested readers from the fields of parasitology and palaeoparasitology, medical sciences and public health, as well as cultural history.
Author(s): Heinz Mehlhorn; Xiaoying Wu; Zhongdao Wu
Series: Parasitology Research Monographs
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: vi; 174
City: Cham
Tags: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Parasitology; Medicine/Public Health, general; Paleoecology; Cultural History; Public Health;
Part I The Silk Roads: Past and Future
1 Network Expansion and Disease Spread along the Former and Present Straits of the Silk Road(S) and Other International Straits 3
Heinz Mehlhorn
2 Belt and Road Initiative Revisited 9
Shengyong Qin
3 Economic Development and Health Care Status in Silk Road Countries 23
Yiming Wu and Liwen Xiao
4 Traditional Medicines Along the BRI Countries 43
Xiaoying Wu
Part II Parasite and Disease Spread Along the Silk Roads: A Review to Date
5 Infectious Diseases in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Countries 5
Xiaoying Wu and Zhongdao Wu
6 Disease Details on Plague (Black Death), Cholera, Brucellosis, and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Along the Silk Road(s) of Former and Recent Times 63
Heinz Mehlhorn
7 Plague Disease: From Asia to Europe and Back along the Silk Road 83
Günter A. Schaub and Patric U. B. Vogel
8 Dengue along the Silk Road 113
Xiaoying Zheng
9 Intestinal Parasites at the Xuanquanzhi Relay Station on the Silk Road 2000 Years Ago 131
Piers D. Mitchell and Hui-Yuan Yeh
10 Dicrocoelium in Iran: From Bronze Age to the Twenty-First Century 141
Alireza Sazmand, Alireza Nourian, and Masoud Nezamabadi
11 Development of Vaccine to Stop Endemic of Hydatid Disease and Promote Connectivity of the Belt and Road Initiative 153
Yilin Zhang and Jie Liu
Index 173
