Several billion people are at daily risk of life-threatening vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, trypanosomiasis and dengue, and the dark shadow of plague hovers in the few endemic foci where it waits ready to re-emerge in a deadly pandemic.The recent epidemic of West Nile virus infection in the United States and of Nipah virus in Malaysia suggests that vector-borne diseases are of growing concern to everyone. This volume is essential reading for researchers and clinicians working with these diseases.
