Intro
Contents
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 Strai...
1.1 Examples of Agents of Selected Diseases along the Silk Roads and further Related Sites
1.2 The Shrinking of our Recent World by Enlarging the Former Straits
Further Reading
2: Belt and Road Initiative Revisited
2.1 Introduction
2.2 International Background of BRI
2.3 The Proposition of Belt and Road Initiative
2.3.1 One Belt
2.3.2 One Road
2.3.3 Comprehensive Network

2.3.4 Policy Coordination
2.3.5 Facility Connectivity
2.4 Integration with International Organization and Countries along the Routes
2.4.1 Continuous Expansion of Strategic Cooperation
2.4.2 Fruitful Communication at the Summit Forum
2.5 The Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative
2.6 Conclusion
References
3: Economic Development and Health Care Status in Silk Road Countries
3.1 Introduction
3.2 ASEAN Countries
3.2.1 Economic Development
3.2.2 Current Status of Medical and Health Care
3.3 Japan and South Korea
3.3.1 Economic Development Status

3.3.2 Current Status of Medical and Health Care
3.4 South Asian Countries
3.4.1 Economic Development Status
3.4.2 Current Status of Medical and Health Care
3.5 Middle East Countries
3.5.1 Economic Development Status
3.5.2 Current Status of Medical and Health Care
3.6 East and North African Countries
3.6.1 Economic Development Status
3.6.2 Current Status of Medical and Health Care
References
4: Traditional Medicines Along the BRI Countries
4.1 Traditional Chinese Medicine
4.2 Traditional Indian Medicine
4.3 Arab-Islamic Traditional Medicine

4.4 Exchange of TCM with Other Traditional Medicines
References
Part II: Parasite and Disease Spread Along the Silk Roads: A Review to Date
5: Infectious Diseases in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Countries
5.1 Current Status of Infectious Diseases in RBI Countries
5.2 The Disease Burden of Infectious Diseases in RBI Countries
5.3 Translation of Chinaś Experiences to Other BRI Counties
References
6: Disease Details on Plague (Black Death), Cholera, Brucellosis, and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Along the Silk Road(s) of Former...
6.1 Plague (Black Death): History

6.1.1 Plague (Disease)
6.1.2 Vectors of Plague Bacteria
6.1.2.1 Human Flea (Pulex irritans) (Fig. 6.1)
6.1.2.2 Cat Flea (Ctenocephalides felis) (Fig. 6.2)
6.1.2.3 Dog Flea (Ctenocephalides canis)
6.1.2.4 Rat Fleas (Nosopsyllus fasciatus)
6.1.2.5 Further hosts
6.2 Cholera
6.2.1 Important treatment
6.2.2 Selected important cholera pandemics, which had also been spread along the Silk Road system in many regions of the globe
6.3 Brucellosis
6.4 Spring-Summer Meningoencephalitis/Tick-Borne Encephalitis
6.4.1 Incubation period
6.4.2 Symptoms of disease