Vector Born Diseases

vector born diseases are infectious diseases that are transmitted from human to human by the transport services of an unwitting insect vector. And this is a really important means of transmission, one that in very wealthy societies we're apt to underestimate. The word malaria is italian, but it means bad air. We forget how widespread some of these diseases are to day, and certainly have been throughout our past. Unthinking about progress is an overarching theme of your book. It has a very complicated relationship with infectious disease.