Manual of Travel Health and Medicine

Part 1 Basics: travelers and their destinations; overview of health risks in travelers; pretravel counseling; strategies in host-related special risks; strategies in environment-related special risks. Part 2 Infectious health risks: anthrax; arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers; botulism; brucellosis; cholera; dengue; dermatologic infections; diphtheria; filariasis; filovirus infections; hantavirus; hepatitis; hepatitis A; hepatitis B; hepatitis C; delta hepatitis; hepatitis E; hepatitis g; Human immunodeficiency virus; influenza; Japanese encephalitis; legionellosis; leishmaniasis; leprosy; leptospirosis; lyme borreliosis; malaria; measles; meningococal meningitis; monkeypox; plague; poliomyelitis; rabies; respiratory tract infections; rickettsial infections; Rift Valley fever; schistosomiasis; sexually transmitted diseases; smallpox; tetanus; tickborne encephalitis; traveler's diarrhea; trypanosomiasis; tuberculosis; typhoid fever; yellow fever. Section 3 Noninfectious health risks and their prevention: accidents; altitude; animal bites and stings; dermatologic problems; diving; environment; jet lag; motion sickness; poisoning; psychiatric problems; ultraviolet rays. Section 4 Diagnosis and management of illness after return: persistent diarrhea; fever without focal findings; dermatologic disorders; eosinophilia. Appendices: abbreviations; selected international and national information sources; country-specific malaria and vaccination recommendations (as per WHO); medical emergency abroad - calling an ambulance.