Routledge Handbook of Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Guide

The new edition of this unique resource, grounded on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an essential survey of infectious diseases based on both clinical presentation and geographical area of exposure.

This book is split into three main sections. The first section offers an overview of the geopolitics of infectious diseases, highlighting the channels through which a disease can spread from one region or country to another, including air travel, shipping or migration. The second section provides a comprehensive overview of each region, highlighting the infectious diseases common to that part of the world. The final section includes a chapter examining new infections of concern, and a chapter discussing infectious diseases in the context of global climate change.

Thoroughly updated with the latest clinical data and featuring contributions from leading scholars and clinicians in the field, this book is a timely and important resource for practitioners and scholars across Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health.

Eskild Petersen is an infectious disease specialist who worked in public health at Statens Serum Institut and in clinical infectious diseases at Aarhus University Hospital. He served as chair of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases emerging infectious diseases task force for five years. He moderated ProMED for 22 years and served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases for ten years. He is also part of the PandemiX Center at Roskilde University.

Lin H. Chen directs the Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is the Past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She has served on CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Working Groups, is Site Director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance and Research Network and is part of the Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travellers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare.

Patricia Schlagenhauf is a Professor at the University of Zürich and serves as the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health and Scientific Group Leader. Her research focuses on travellers’ malaria, emerging vector-borne infections, and infectious disease epidemiology. Active in surveillance of travel-related illness, she is the Director of the European network EuroTravNet since 2022 and the Zürich GeoSentinel Site Director since 1998. Additionally, she holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of New Microbes New Infections.