The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections

Abstract

A guide to help international travelers stay healthy and avoid viruses, bacteria, and parasites with tips on pre-trip travel clinic visits, travel insurance, medical kits, personal protection measures, and related topics. Sources of travel advice. Personal physicians and travel clinics ; Websites for travelers ; Medical and evacuation insurance ; Overseas medical care and medical tourism -- Pre-travel planning. Devising a prevention strategy ; The geographic distribution of major travelers' infections ; Immunizations ; Personal protection measures ; Drug prophylaxis and self-treatment ; Special circumstances ; Travel medical kits -- Bacterial infections. What you-- and your doctor-- need to know about bacteria ; Typhoid fever ; Plague ; Cholera ; Leptospirosis ; Typhus and other rickettsial infections ; Oroya, trench, and Q fevers ; Relapsing fevers ; Anthrax, brucellosis, and listeriosis ; Bacterial meningitis ; Tuberculosis -- Viral infections. What you-- and your doctor-- need to know about viruses ; Arbovirus infections : an overview ; Yellow fever ; Dengue fever ; Other arboviruses ; Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers ; Poliomyelitis ; Acute viral hepatitis ; Rabies ; Influenza -- Parasitic infections. What you-- and your doctor-- need to know about parasites ; Malaria ; Amebiasis ; Leishmaniasis ; African and American trypanosomiasis ; Intestinal roundworm infections ; Tissue roundworm infections ; Schistosomiasis and other flatworm infections -- Infections caused by multiple microbes. Sexually transmitted infections ; Travelers' diarrhea ; Tropical skin infections and infestations -- Post-travel considerations. Fever in returning travelers ; Post-travel screening : yes or no?