Abstract
Abstract This chapter discusses the aetiology, clinical features, diagnosis, transmission, incubation period, period of communicability, occurrence and distribution, control and prevention (e.g., avoiding endemic foci, taking precautions against ectoparasites, personal hygiene, vaccination, insecticides, insect repellents, quarantine), treatment and surveillance of ectoparasitic zoonoses such as plague, typhus, louse-borne relapsing fever, tick-borne relapsing fever, diseases transmitted by hard ticks, tick typhus/fever (Mediterranean spotted fever, African tick bite fever, Siberian tick typhus, Queensland tick typhus), Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis and arbovirus infections (Kyasanur Forest disease, Omsk haemorrhagic fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever and others).
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