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,...

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,...

Background: In the last decades, there have been several natural disasters and global catastrophies with a steady increase in humanitarian relief work. This has resulted in increased research in the field of humanitarian aid, however the focus is mostly on the victims of the disasters and not on...

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...

Background: Europeans represent the majority of international travellers and clinicians encountering returned patients have an essential role in recognizing, and communicating travel-associated public health risks. Methods: To investigate the morbidity of travel associated infectious diseases in...

This manual, which is divided into 4 parts, contains information on preventive travel medicine. Infectious (anthrax, arenaviral haemorrhagic fevers, botulism, brucellosis, cholera, dengue, dermatitis, diphtheria, filariasis, filovirus infection, hantavirus, hepatitis A, B, C, delta, E, and G, human ...

Background: The number of travelers in Oman has increased significantly in the last 2 decades with an increase in the expatriate population workforce leading to the emergence of infections related to travel. This paper aims to highlight the burden of travel-related infections in Oman. Method: Our...

This case report describes the clinical course and management of a 44-year-old man born in France living in Mayotte for 7 years travelled to France and Switzerland, from 6 March 6 to 14 March, 2020. A flu-like syndrome started on 11 March in Paris, and on Day 4 the nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV2 PCR and...

Background: One of the most common arboviral illnesses is dengue fever. It's the second-leading cause of acute febrile sickness among tourists. The dengue virus is a flaviviridae virus with a single-stranded, non-segmented ribonucleic acid (RNA) genome. Dengue fever is caused by four separate...

Every year, millions of people travel abroad, exposing themselves to various diseases. Advice on risk avoidance and on self-medication is not always successful; sometimes travellers return home ill or become unwell soon afterwards. There are many possible causes for such illnesses, and physicians...