Background: The number of Japanese people traveling abroad and foreigners coming to Japan has substantially increased; however, resources for diagnosis and treatment of tropical and emerging diseases are limited in rural medical institutions. Although previous studies have described the...

Background: Catch-up vaccination of adults with measles, rubella, mumps, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine is important, but is often not accepted due to the cost and frequency of vaccination, especially when the childhood vaccination records are unknown. We examined whether antibody testing might lead...

To understand public's image of rivers and to use it for future river management, social media data were analyzed. Among data of various social media, Instagram data were chosen for their real-time nature with low noise. Data were collected through hash-tag searches with hash-tags related to rivers ...

To provide correct information about dengue fever and Zika virus infection to Japanese overseas travelers, we analyzed the knowledge that people have regarding dengue fever and Zika virus infection. For this purpose, we asked Japanese people (n: 500) who were planning to travel to a developing...

Japanese doctors are somewhat unfamiliar with imported infectious diseases, however, the following imported infectious diseases are notable: cholera, which is currently endemic in Haiti and which there is a possibility of it being imported to Japan from endemic areas; typhoid fever and paratyphoid...

This volume contains 76 abstracts of papers presented at the conference. Topics covered include: dengue virus infections; onchocerciasis; leishmaniasis; travel medicine; immigrant medicine; medical interpretation/translation; acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in Africa; malaria...

The purpose of this study was to (1) clarify the characteristics of female charity runners; (2) identify communications between charity runners and beneficial organizations and their attitudes toward donations; and (3) determine the relationship between charity runners' attitudes toward donations...

Malaria prophylaxis measures for travellers include stand-by treatment (self-treatment), which is indicated in areas of low transmission for short-term travellers and those with brief, repeated exposure to malaria. The inappropriate use of stand-by treatment in non-malaria cases may expose...

This special issue contains guidelines on the occurrence of emergencies in the vector control of dengue towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games.