The aim of this article is to examine how tourism conference organizers react to the restricted mobility incurred by the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Do they cancel, change format, or change date for the event? This study contributes to an initial analysis of how organizers of international...
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Falk, M. T.; Hagsten, E.
Publisher
Cognizant Communication Corporation, Putnam Valley, USA
Citation
Event Management, 2022, 26, 7, pp 1653-1662
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted human lives worldwide and cases are still increasing at a fast pace in 2020. In India, the global challenge of COVID-19 started showing its impact during late March 2020. Delhi being a metropolitan city with an international air terminal, the corona virus disease...
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Tuli, N. R.; Kanika Singh; Prithvi Singh; Bisht, B.; Himmat Singh
Publisher
World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
Citation
Dengue Bulletin, 2020, 41, pp 166-179
Objective: To describe the demographics, patterns of assessment and treatment of people visiting a regional emergency department with potential diagnoses of malaria or dengue fever. Design: To identify potential dengue fever cases, we used an indicator of recent overseas travel and fever that is a...
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Johansson, C. M.; McBride, W. J. H.; Engström, K.; Mills, J.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Melbourne, Australia
Citation
Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2012, 20, 3, pp 150-155
Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne virus, is an ongoing public health issue in North Queensland. Importation of dengue fever by travellers visiting or returning to Australia can lead to epidemics. The mosquito can acquire the virus in the symptomatic viraemic phase, so timely recognition of cases is...
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Vajta, B.; Holberg, M.; Mills, J.; McBride, W. J. H.
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CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia
Citation
Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2015, 21, 2, pp 245-248
The purpose of this prospective, questionnaire-based study is to assess pre-travel vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis for long-term travellers who receive pre-travel advice in Greece. A total of 4721 travellers were studied from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2012. Travellers sought...
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Pavli, A.; Smeti, P.; Spilioti, A.; Silvestros, C.; Katerelos, P.; Maltezou, H. C.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2014, 12, 6, Part B, pp 764-770
The aim of this prospective, questionnaire-based study is to assess pre-travel vaccinations for international travellers who receive pre-travel advice in Greece. A total of 2494 travellers were studied from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010. Travellers sought pre-travel advice at a median...
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Pavli, A.; Spilioti, A.; Lymperi, I.; Katerelos, P.; Maltezou, H. C.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2013, 11, 4, pp 225-230
This thesis is based on 5 publications, which are reprinted together with a 48-page overview of the entire study. Sandfly fever (SF) was studied among Swedish UN soldiers in Cyprus, Swedish tourists and indigenous Cypriots. 11 of 298 (4%) UN soldiers had a SF virus infection caused by the Sicilian...
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Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sandfly fever: epidemiological, clinical and virological studies., 1991, pp 99 pp.
Typhoid fever (TF) is a rare disease among travellers to endemic areas, and little is known about its travel-related epidemiology. In addition, efficacy data on TF vaccines in travellers is scanty. During 3 months of 1994/95, six cases of TF were reported in The Netherlands among participants of...
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Cobelens, F. G. J.; Kooij, S.; Warris-Versteegen, A.; Visser, L. G.
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2000, 7, 1, pp 19-24