Disease Details on Plague (Black Death), Cholera, Brucellosis, and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Along the Silk Road(s) of Former and Recent Times

The so-called Silk Road connected during the Middle Ages regions of China of our days to Southern regions in Europe, passing countries like Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, etc., of our days, since European people wanted materials and products based on silk. These East-Western connections led to cultural connections as well as to the exchange and transfer of severe bacterial diseases like plague and cholera as well as viral diseases like Spring-summer-meningo-encephalitis/tick-borne encephalitis (Fig. 6.1).