Arboviral diseases: a field where research and public health call for international cooperation
Bres, P.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 40(5): 485-491
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 7442508 Document Number: 155318
Arboviral diseases constitute a group of infections transmitted to man by hematophagous arthropods: mosquitoes, ticks, sand flies and culicoides. A long period of research has provided only partial insight into their mode of transmission. Arboviruses can cause influenza-like diseases, haemorrhagic fevers, and encephalitides. As a result of the different clinical manifestations and their complex mode of transmission, they give rise to public health problems which are usually severe and difficult to solve, and which may result in extensive and deadly epidemics. Fortunately, these problems have motivated international cooperation in scientific research and in the solution of public health problems, a unique example in the field of virology.