Arboviral diseases receive serious consideration as the emerging infectious diseases globally. In veterinary medicine there are both zoonotic agents and primarily animal pathogens warranting concern. Japanese encephalitis virus and West Nile virus are two zoonotic arboviral agents that have had a major impact globally in recent years, Japanese encephalitis in the Asia-Western Pacific area and W...

Indonesia, an island nation as large as continental Europe, hosts a sizeable proportion of global human diversity, yet remains surprisingly undercharacterized genetically. Here, we substantially expand on existing studies by reporting genome-scale data for nearly 500 individuals from 25 populations in Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Oceania, notably including previously unsampled islands...

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are serious problems for healthcare systems, especially in developing countries where public health infrastructure and technology for infection preventions remain undeveloped. Here, we characterized how strategy and technology could be mobilized to improve the effectiveness of infection prevention and control in hospitals during the outbreaks of Ebola, Middle...

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. It is likely caused by a complex interplay between genetic, immunologic and environmental factors. Although IBD is still relatively uncommon in Asia, a multitude of studies have shown that it is an emerging disease around the world. Recent insights have highlighted both the similarities and dif...

BACKGROUND Mortality refers to the death that occurs within a population. It is linked to many factors such as age, sex, race, occupation and social class. The incidence and prevalence of mortality could affect the population's standard of living and health care. The aim of this study was to explore the pattern of mortality trends in Iran, south-south west Asia and the world in 1970-2010. MET...

This special issue offers important insights into race in Asia, first shared a workshop “New Racism and Migration: Beyond Colour the ‘West’”. My concluding commentary begins by positioning debates on within literature “new racism”. The enhanced existing thinking pointing to legacies of racial thought migration nature comparison thinking, ways which is entangled with class. It then outlines what...

Phylogenetic evidence suggests that endemic and epidemic dengue viruses (DENV), transmitted among humans by the anthropophilic mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, emerged when ancestral, sylvatic DENV transmitted among nonhuman primates by sylvatic Aedes mosquitoes adapted to these peridomestic vectors. We tested this hypothesis by retrospectively examining evidence for adaptation of e...

Introduction Asian business has long had a fondness for cash. While the West gravitated toward purchases on credit – through cards or installments – Asia maintained its passion for the tangible. Four-fifths of all transactions in Hong Kong are handled with cash. It is into this environment that Mondex International, the London based purveyor of electronic smart cards, and Visa International, th...

Described from the steppe zones north of the Black Sea, Caucasus, and central Asia, Gryllotalpa stepposa Zhantiev was recently recorded from a few localities in Greece, R. Macedonia, and Bulgaria. In May 2015, several specimens were collected from Ivrinezu Mare in Romania, which suggested a continuous distribution area of the species, stretching from the central Balkans to central Asia. Thus, t...