Background: Travellers are at risk of acquiring infectious diseases during travel, with risks differing by destination, travel and traveller characteristics. A pre-travel health consultation may minimize this risk. However, uptake of pre-travel health advice remains low. We investigated pre-...
Author(s)
Paudel, P.; Raina, C.; Zwar, N.; Seale, H.; Worth, H.; Sheikh, M.; Heywood, A. E.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2017, 24, 5, pp tax044
This book, inclusive of 10 chapters, offers relevant discussions on all main health risks to travellers, both during their journey and at their destinations. Important infectious diseases, including causative agents, modes of transmission, clinical features, geographical distribution, prophylaxis,...
Publisher
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International travel and health: Situation as on 1 January 2009, 2009, pp x + 240 pp.
This supplement contains papers on the impact of emerging diseases on global travel. The topics covered are: travel vaccines; traveller's diarrhoea; childhood vaccination; prevention, control and surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome; diagnosis of dengue; chikungunya infection; sea, air ...
Publisher
Malaysian Medical Association, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Citation
Medical Journal of Malaysia, 2004, 59, Supplement E, pp x + 121 pp.
Background: Travellers are generally considered good sentinels for infectious disease surveillance. AimTo investigate whether health data from travellers arriving from Africa to Europe could provide evidence to support surveillance systems in Africa. Methods: We examined disease occurrence and...
Author(s)
Gossner, C. M.; Hallmaier-Wacker, L.; Briet, O.; Haussig, J. M.; Valk, H. de; Wijermans, A.; Bakonyi, T.; Madubuko, T.; Frank, C.; Noel, H.; Abdulaziz, M.
Publisher
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation
Eurosurveillance, 2023, 28, 7,
This chapter focuses on other infectious diseases affecting travellers not mentioned in other chapters. Topics include modes of transmission and general precautions. These other infectious diseases include amoebiasis, angiostrongyliasis, avian influenza, anthrax, brucellosis, Chikungunya, dengue,...
Publisher
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International travel and health: Situation as on 1 January 2010, 2010, pp 53-90
Background: Travel is important in the acquisition and dissemination of infection. We aimed to assess European surveillance data for travel-related illness to profile imported infections, track trends, identify risk groups, and assess the usefulness of pre-travel advice. Methods: We analysed...
Author(s)
Schlagenhauf, P.; Weld, L.; Goorhuis, A.; Gautret, P.; Weber, R.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Lopez-Vélez, R.; Jensenius, M.; Cramer, J. P.; Field, V. K.; Odolini, S.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Chappuis, F.; Malvy, D.; Genderen, P. J. J. van; Mockenhaupt, F.; Jauréguiberry, S.; Smith, C.; Beeching, N. J.; Ursing, J.; Parola, P.; Grobusch, M. P.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015, 15, 1, pp 55-64
Mosquitoes breed by feeding on the blood of vertebrates to obtain the nutrients necessary to oviposition. In the process of feeding on human blood, mosquitoes can transmit a variety of serious human diseases and pose a great risk to human health. With the rapid development of globalization and the...
Author(s)
Si XiaoXi; Li XiaoYe; Zheng AiHua
Publisher
Institute of Zoology, Beijing, China
Citation
Chinese Journal of Applied Entomology, 2023, 60, 1, pp 1-12
Chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever and Zika viruses share many attributes. All are complex and widespread zoonoses of subhuman primates that have made successful transitions to the urban Aedes aegypti transmission cycle. More important, they have an established record of travelling, having moved...
Author(s)
Halstead, S. B.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019, 31, pp 101471
Background. There is limited information on compliance rates with anti-vectorial protective measures (AVPMs) during travel to countries with risk of dengue and chikungunya. We evaluated differences in mosquito exposures, and factors associated with AVPM compliance in travellers going to countries...
Author(s)
Lalani, T.; Yun, H.; Tribble, D.; Anuradha Ganesan; Kunz, A.; Fairchok, M.; Schnaubelt, E.; Fraser, J.; Indrani Mitra; Kronmann, K. C.; Burgess, T.; Deiss, R. G.; Riddle, M. S.; Johnson, M. D.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
Citation
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2016, 23, 5, pp taw043
This report provides an overview of the global epidemiology of various travel-associated infections together with a summary of the burden of travel-associated diseases in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland up to 2005. It presents data on travel trends, mortality and non-infectious morbidity in...
Author(s)
Lawrence, J.; Jones, J.
Publisher
Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Citation
Foreign travel associated illness, England, Wales and Northern Ireland: 2007 report , 2007, pp 101 pp.