The Role of Vectors in Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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Considerable attention has recently been drawn at the global level to the serious threat to humans caused by new, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Among the infectious vector-borne diseases, dengue, dengue haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, plague, malaria, leishmaniasis, rodent-borne viruses and arboviruses are considered to be persisting, and sometimes re-emerging, with serious threat to human health. In the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, dengue, malaria and leishmaniasis are significant vector-borne diseases. This article discusses the role of vectors in the re-emergence of malaria, leishmaniasis and dengue fever and their control.
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