Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mehlhorn, Heinz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Parasitology Research Monographs, 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Parasitology.; Health promotion.; Veterinary medicine.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Veterinary Medicine.

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 “emerg...