Background: With increasing international travel and historically high numbers of residents visiting friends and relatives overseas, travel-associated illnesses are frequent in Marseille, France. We report the changing epidemiology of travel-related illnesses over a 12-year period. Methods: A...

Introduction: GeoSentinel is a global surveillance network of travel medicine providers seeing ill-returned travellers. Much of our knowledge on health problems and infectious encountered by international travellers has evolved as a result of GeoSentinel surveillance, providing geographic and...

Purpose of Review: The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas prompted enhanced global surveillance due to the recognition of adverse neurological outcomes, including Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a novel but devastating congenital syndrome. Symptomatic Zika virus infection is clinically indistinguishable...

The following is a summary of the principal disease outbreaks and their locations which TRAVAX reported in 2016. The main new risk reported was Zika virus which in 2016 was reported in the majority of Latin American countries and the Caribbean, as well as in the USA. Outbreaks were also reported in ...

Internet has become a key element in any economic activity, but to do so require constant updating due to its various changes. In the tourism has appeared what is known as Web 2.0, allowing direct interaction between different companies, organizations and/or users, especially from social networks....

Background. Outbreaks of mosquito-borne arboviral diseases including dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), yellow fever virus (YFV) and chikungunya virus (CHIKV) have recently occurred in the Caribbean. The geographical range of the principal vectors responsible for transmission, Aedes (Ae.) ...

Background: Non-immune international travellers are at risk of acquiring hepatitis A. Although hepatitis A vaccination is recommended for unvaccinated travellers to high or intermediate hepatitis A virus endemicity, compliance with this recommendation is not universal. The main objective was to...

Background: Dengue, chikungunya and zika infections occur in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. We describe the utilization of an in-house nucleic acid test (NAT) targeting all three viruses for febrile returning travelers in Alberta, Canada. Methods: NAT was performed until 40 days...

Haiti lies on the western third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean, and is one of the poorest nations in the Western hemisphere. Haiti attracts a lot of medical attention and support due to severe natural disasters followed by disastrous health consequences. Vector-borne infections are...

Background: Due to increasing concerns about post-chikungunya (pCHIK) rheumatic disorders in Latin America we aimed to evaluate its occurrence in travelers returning to NYC from the Caribbean. Method: Patients diagnosed with chikungunya (CHIK) during 2014 at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center...