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Arthropod-borne virus information exchange June 1991
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June 1991
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Description:The thrust of the Arbovirus Information Exchange has changed because of changes that have taken place in arbovirology. By definition, arbovirology is the study of arthropod-borne viruses. However, only a very few people ever were involved in studies of all arboviruses. More commonly, individual investigators studied viruses that cause diseases in particular countries, or studied the fundamental processes by which these viruses replicate, cause disease, and circulate and spread in nature and in human and animal populations. This continues to be the case. What brings us ("arbovirologists") together is the common fascination with similarities and differences between these viruses, and the ecologic and epidemiologic attributes that characterize them: geography, weather, seasonality, vectors and vertebrate hosts, symptomatology, pathogenesis, customs, economics, religion, history, tradition, etc. The important arboviral diseases have not disappeared. Dengue, Japanese encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, yellow fever, Kyasanur Forest disease, the eguine encephalitides, Lacrosse encephalitis, Oropouche disease, Rift Valley fever, and others continue to reappear periodically to cause morbidity and mortality in people and agriculturally and economically important animals. Indeed, some of these diseases may be as common, or more common, or more widespread now than they were a decade ago.
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Pages in Document:79 numbered pages
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Volume:1991
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Issue:1
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