Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads

Prof. Dr. Heinz Mehlhorn has retired from Düsseldorf University and was President of the German and World Societies of Parasitology and Protozoology. He has published 80 parasitology books and is currently chairman of a German company, which has developed products against parasites.

Part 1: The Silk Roads: Past and Future.- Chapter 1: Network expansion and disease spread along the former and present straits of the Silk Road(s) and other international straits.- Chapter 2: Belt and Road Initiative Revisited.- Chapter 3: Economic Development and Health Care Status in Silk Road Countries.- Chapter 4: Traditional medicines along the BRI countries.- Part 2: Parasite and Disease Spread along the Silk Roads: A Review to date.- Chapter 5: Infectious diseases in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries.- Chapter 6: Disease details on plague (Black Death), cholera, brucellosis, and tick-borne encephalitis along the Silk Road(s) of former and recent times.- Chapter 7: Plague disease - from Asia to Europe and back along the Silk Road.- Chapter 8: Dengue along the silk road.- Chapter 9: Intestinal Parasites at the Xuanquanzhi relay station on the Silk Road 2,000 Years Ago.- Chapter 10: Dicrocoelium in Iran: From Bronze Age to the 21st century.- Chapter 11: Development of vaccines to stop endemic of hydatid diseases and promote connectivity of BRI.