Emerging Vector-borne Diseases in a Changing Environment

Vector-borne infectious diseases are emerging or resurging as a result of changes in public health policy, demographic andsocietal changes, insecticide and drug resistance, shift in emphasis from prevention to emergency response, genetic changes in pathogens in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Climate changes also can influence the emergence and reemergence of these diseases which are malaria, dengue, yellow fever, plague, filariasis, louse-borne typhus, lyme disease, trypanosomiasis,leishmaniasis and viral diseases. West Nile virus is just the latest example of this type of invasion by exotic virus. This paper will provide an overview of the distribution, reasons of emergence or reemergence of the important vector-borne diseases throughout the world.