Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads : The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today

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