CDC health information for international travel : the yellow book

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CDC health information for international travel : the yellow book

editor in chief Gary W. Brunette ; medical editors Phyllis E. Kozarsky, Alan J. Magill, David R. Shlim ; managing editor Amanda D. Whatley

Oxford University Press, 2012-

  • 2012
  • 2014
  • 2016
  • 2018
  • 2020

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2014: chief medical editor, Phyllis E. Kozarsky. medical editors, Nicole J. Cohen, Mark D. Gershman, Alan J. Magill, Stephen M. Ostroff, Edward T. Ryan, David R. Shlim, Michelle Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Wilson

2016: chief medical editor, Phyllis E. Kozarsky ; medical editors, Nicole J. Cohen, Mark D. Gershman, Alan J. Magill, Stephen M. Ostroff, Edward T. Ryan, David R. Shlim, Michelle Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Wilson ; managing editor, Megan Crawley O'Sullivan ; technical editor, Ronnie Henry

2018: chief medical editor, Phyllis E. Kozarsky ; medical editors, Clive M. Brown, Nicole J. Cohen, Doulas H. Esposito, Mark D. Gershman, Stephen M. Ostroff, Edward T. Ryan, David R. Shlim, Richard W.Steketee, Michelle Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Wilson ; managing editor, Megan Crawley O'Sullivan ; technical editor, Ronnie Henry

2020: editors in chief, Jeffrey B. Nemhauser ; chief medical editor, Phyllis E. Kozarsky ; medical editors, Kristina M. Angelo, Nicole J. Cohen, Douglas H. Esposito, Stephen M. Ostroff, Edward T. Ryan, David R. Shlim, Richard W. Steketee, Michelle Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Wilson ; managing editor, Jenique Meekins ; technical editor, Ronnie Henry

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Volume

2020 ISBN 9780190928933

Description

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2020! "A beloved travel must-have for the intrepid wanderer." -Publishers Weekly "A truly excellent and comprehensive resource." -Journal of Hospital Infection The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad. This 2020 edition includes: * Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps * Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis * Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea * Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations * Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings * Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs * Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations * Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance * Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries * Recommendations for traveling with infants and children * Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers * Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field - and an ever-changing world.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction Introduction to Travel Health & the CDC Yellow Book Travel Epidemiology Perspectives: WHY GUIDELINES DIFFER Air Travel Trends 2 Preparing International Travelers The Pretravel Consultation Perspectives: TRAVELERS' PERCEPTION OF RISK Last-Minute Travelers Complementary & Integrative Health Approaches Prioritizing Care for the Resource-Limited Traveler Telemedicine Perspectives: LEGAL ISSUES FOR CLINICIANS Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis: General Recommendations Interactions among Travel Vaccines & Drugs Yellow Fever & Malaria Information, by Country Food & Water Precautions Water Disinfection Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins Travelers' Diarrhea Perspectives: ANTIBIOTICS IN TRAVELERS' DIARRHEA-BALANCING THE RISKS & BENEFITS 3 Environmental Hazards & Other Noninfectious Health Risks Injury & Trauma Mental Health Safety & Security Overseas Mosquitoes, Ticks & Other Arthropods Sun Exposure Extremes of Temperature Air Quality & Ionizing Radiation Animal Bites & Stings (Zoonotic Exposures) Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-Related Injuries Perspectives: ZOONOSES: THE ONE HEALTH APPROACH High-Altitude Travel & Altitude Illness 4 Travel-Related Infectious Diseases Amebiasis Angiostrongyliasis, Neurologic Anthrax B virus Bartonella Infections Brucellosis Campylobacteriosis Chikungunya Cholera Coccidioidomycosis Cryptosporidiosis Cutaneous Larva Migrans Cyclosporiasis Cysticercosis Dengue Diphtheria Echinococcosis Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic Fascioliasis Filariasis, Lymphatic Flukes, Lung Giardiasis Hand, Foot& Mouth Disease Helicobacter pylori Helminths, Soil-Transmitted Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis E Histoplasmosis HIV Infection Influenza Japanese Encephalitis Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever) Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Visceral Leptospirosis Lyme Disease Malaria Measles (Rubeola) Melioidosis Meningococcal Disease Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Mumps Norovirus Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Pertussis Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm) Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic) Pneumococcal Disease Poliomyelitis Q Fever Rabies Perspectives: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO RABIES IMMUNIZATION Rickettsial (Spotted & Typhus Fevers) & Related Infections, including Anaplasmosis & Ehrlichiosis Rubella Salmonellosis (Nontyphoidal) Sarcocystosis Scabies Schistosomiasis Shigellosis Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections Strongyloidiasis Taeniasis Tetanus Tickborne Encephalitis Toxoplasmosis Trypanosomiasis, African (Sleeping Sickness) Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease) Tuberculosis Perspectives: SCREENING TRAVELERS FOR TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever Varicella (Chickenpox) Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Yellow Fever Yersiniosis Zika Virus 5 Travelers with Additional Considerations Immunocompromised Travelers Travelers with Disabilities Travelers with Chronic Illnesses 6 Health Care Abroad Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation Insurance Perspectives: PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY & FALSIFIED DRUGS Travel Health Kits 7 Family Travel Pregnant Travelers Travel & Breastfeeding Traveling Safely with Infants & Children Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children International Adoption 8 Travel by Air, Land & Sea Air Travel Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism Jet Lag Road & Traffic Safety Cruise Ship Travel Motion Sickness 9 Work & Other Reasons for Travel Business Travel Aircrews Health Care Workers, including Public Health Researchers & Medical Laboratorians Humanitarian Aid Workers US Military Deployments Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel Visiting Friends & Relatives: VFR Travel Mass Gatherings Adventure Travel Sex & Travel 10 Select Destinations Rationale for Select Destinations Africa & the Middle East East Africa: Safaris Saudi Arabia: Hajj/Umrah Pilgrimage South Africa Tanzania: Kilimanjaro The Americas & the Caribbean Brazil Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Mexico Peru: Cusco, Machu Picchu & Other Regions Asia Burma (Myanmar) China India Nepal Thailand 11 Posttravel Evaluation General Approach to the Returned Traveler Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers Posttravel Evaluation: Fever Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases Sexually Transmitted Infections Skin & Soft Tissue Infections Respiratory Infections Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers Newly Arrived Immigrants & Refugees 12 Appendices Appendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel Medicine Appendix B: Travel Vaccine Summary Table Appendix C: Death during Travel Appendix D: Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health Interventions Appendix E: Taking Animals & Animal Products across International Borders Index Photography Credits
Volume

2016 ISBN 9780199379156

Description

For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, CDC Health Information for International Travel (more commonly known as The Yellow Book) is the definitive resource for preventing illness and injury in a globalized world. This 2016 edition offers the US government's most current health recommendations for travelers to international destinations, including disease risk maps, country-specific guidelines, and vaccine requirements and recommendations. The book also offers updated guidance for specific types of travel and travelers, New and expanded features for the 2016 edition include: * Select destination advice for popular or unique travel locations * Country-level yellow fever vaccine recommendation maps resource-limited traveler * Health considerations for specific types of travelers such as pregnant, immunocompromised, or resource-limited travelers * Advice for air crews, humanitarian aid workers, and health care workers traveling to provide care overseas Written by a team of experts on the forefront of travel medicine, The Yellow Book provides a user-friendly, vital resource for those in the business of keeping travelers healthy abroad.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1-Introduction
  • Introduction to Travel Health and the Yellow Book
  • Planning for Healthy Travel: CDC Travelers' Health Website and Mobile Applications
  • Travel Epidemiology
  • Perspectives: The Role of the Traveler in Translocation of Disease
  • Perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ
  • Chapter 2-The Pre-Travel Consultation
  • The Pre-Travel Consultation
  • Perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk
  • Perspectives: Prioritizing for the Resource-Limited Traveler
  • Perspectives: Cost Analysis of Travel Medicine
  • General Recommendations for Vaccination and Immunoprophylaxis
  • Drug-Vaccine and Drug-Drug Interactions
  • Perspectives: Fear of Vaccines
  • Self-Treatable Conditions
  • Travelers' Diarrhea
  • History of the Definition and Management of Travelers' Diarrhea
  • Altitude Illness
  • History of Recognition and Management of Altitude Illness
  • Jet Lag
  • Motion Sickness
  • Respiratory Infections
  • Counseling and Advice for Travelers
  • Food and Water Precautions
  • Perspectives: Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea-It's Not Only WHAT You Eat and Drink
  • Water Disinfection for Travelers
  • Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins
  • Protection against Mosquitoes, Ticks, and Other Arthropods
  • Sun Exposure
  • Problems with Heat and Cold
  • Injury Prevention
  • Safety & Securty
  • Animal-Associated Hazards
  • Natural Disasters
  • Environmental Hazards
  • Scuba Diving
  • Medical Tourism
  • Discussing Complementary or Alternative Health Approaches with Travelers
  • Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
  • Mental Health
  • Travel Health Kits
  • Perspectives: Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeit Drugs
  • Obtaining Health Care Abroad for the Ill Traveler
  • Travel Health Insurance and Evacuation Insurance
  • Chapter 3-Infectious Diseases Related to Travel
  • Amebiasis
  • Angiostrongyliasis (Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection, Neurologic Angiostrongyliasis)
  • Anthrax
  • B virus
  • Bartonella-Associated Infections
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacter Enteritis
  • Chikungunya
  • Cholera
  • Coccidioidomycosis
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cutaneous Larva Migrans
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Cysticercosis
  • Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Diphtheria
  • Echinococcosis
  • Escherichia coli
  • Fascioliasis
  • Filariasis, Lymphatic
  • Giardiasis
  • Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Helminths, Intestinal
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis E
  • Histoplasmosis
  • HIV and AIDS
  • Influenza (Seasonal, Zoonotic, and Pandemic)
  • Japanese Encephalitis
  • Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever)
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral
  • Leptospirosis
  • Lyme Disease
  • Malaria
  • History of Malaria Chemoprophylaxis
  • Measles (Rubeola)
  • Melioidosis
  • Meningococcal Disease
  • Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
  • Mumps
  • Norovirus
  • Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
  • Pertussis
  • Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm)
  • Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic)
  • Pneumococcal Disease (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
  • Poliomyelitis
  • For the Record: A History of Polio Eradication Efforts
  • Q Fever
  • Rabies
  • Perspectives: Intradermal Rabies Vaccine
  • Rickettsial (Spotted and Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections (Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis)
  • Rubella
  • Salmonella (Nontyphoidal)
  • Scabies (Sarcoptic Itch, Sarcoptic Acariasis)
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Perspectives: Sex Tourism
  • Shigellosis
  • Smallpox and Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections
  • Strongyloidiasis
  • Taeniasis
  • Tetanus
  • Tickborne Encephalitis
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Trypanosomiasis, African (Human African Trypanosomiasis, African Sleeping Sickness)
  • Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Perspectives: Tuberculin Skin Testing of Travelers
  • Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
  • Varicella (Chickenpox)
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
  • Yellow Fever
  • History of Yellow Fever Vaccine Requirements
  • Yersiniosis
  • Zika Virus
  • Yellow Fever and Malaria Information, by Country
  • Chapter 4-Select Destinations
  • Rationale for Select Destinations
  • Africa
  • East Africa: Safaris
  • South Africa
  • Tanzania: Kilimanjaro
  • Americas and The Caribbean
  • Brazil
  • Dominican Republic
  • Haiti
  • Mexico
  • Peru: Cuzco-Machu Picchu
  • Asia
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • India
  • Nepal
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Egypt and Nile River Cruises
  • Saudi Arabia: Hajj Pilgrimage
  • Chapter 5-Post-Travel Evaluation
  • General Approach to the Returned Traveler
  • Fever in Returned Travelers
  • Persistent Travelers' Diarrhea
  • Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Returned Travelers
  • Asymptomatic Post-Travel Screening
  • Chapter 6-Conveyance and Transportation Issues
  • Air Travel
  • Cruise Ship Travel
  • Perspectives: What to Expect when Traveling during an International Outbreak
  • Death during Travel
  • Taking Animals and Animal Products across International Borders
  • Chapter 7-International Travel with Infants and Children
  • Traveling Safely with Infants and Children
  • Vaccine Recommendations for Infants and Children
  • Travel and Breastfeeding
  • International Adoption
  • Chapter 8-Advising Travelers with Specific Needs
  • Travelers with Chronic Illnesses
  • Pregnant Travelers
  • Travelers with Disabilities
  • Immigrants Returning Home To Visit Friends and Relatives (VFRs)
  • Health Care Workers
  • Advice for Air Crews
  • Humanitarian Aid Workers
  • Long-Term Travelers and Expatriates
  • Perspectives: Long-term Travel and Malaria Prophylaxis
  • Last-Minute Travelers
  • Special Considerations for US Military Deployments
  • Study Abroad
  • Travel to Mass Gatherings
  • Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees
  • Immunocompromised Travelers
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel Medicine
  • Appendix B: Travel Vaccine Summary Table
  • Appendix C: Migrant Health Resources
Volume

2012 ISBN 9780199769018

Description

Health risks are dynamic and ever-changing, both at home and while traveling abroad. To stay abreast of the most up-to-date health recommendations, for decades health care professionals and travelers have relied on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's user-friendly Health Information for International Travel (commonly referred to as the The Yellow Book) as a trusted reference. Updated biennially by a team of experts, this book is the only publication for all official government recommendations for international travel. The book's features include clear and easy-to-read disease risk maps, information on where to find health care during travel, specific health information and itineraries for popular tourist destinations, detailed country-specific information for yellow fever and malaria, advice for those traveling with infants and children, and a comprehensive catalog of diseases, their clinical pictures, and their epidemiologies. The Yellow Book addresses the pre-travel consult and provides post-travel clinical guidance on ways to approach common syndromes of returned travelers who are ill.

Table of Contents

  • CHAPTER 1-INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 2-THE PRE-TRAVEL CONSULTATION
  • CHAPTER 3- INFECTIOUS DISEASES RELATED TO TRAVEL
  • CHAPTER 4-SELECT DESTINATIONS AND TRAVEL ITINERARIES
  • CHAPTER 5- POST TRAVEL
  • CHAPTER 6-CONVEYANCE AND TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
  • CHAPTER 7-INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WITH INFANTS AND CHILDREN
  • CHAPTER 8-ADVISING TRAVELERS WITH SPECIFIC NEEDS
  • CHAPTER 9-HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS FOR NEWLY ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
  • APPENDICES
  • 153 APPENDIX A: PROMOTION OF QUALITY IN THE PRACTICE OF TRAVEL MEDICINE
  • 154 APPENDIX B: ESSENTIAL ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR THE TRAVEL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
  • 155 APPENDIX C: TRAVEL VACCINE SUMMARY TABLE
  • 156 APPENDIX D: HEALTHMAP
Volume

2014 ISBN 9780199948499

Description

This is a comprehensive resource for travel doctors and individual travellers to consult before, during, and after travel. Its full-color interior includes easy-to-read disease risk maps, information on where to find health care abroad, itineraries and health risks from select destinations (particularly popular with the lay audience), advice for those traveling with infants and children, and a comprehensive catalog of every infectious agent lurking in international territories. In short, the Yellow Book represents the best, U.S. government-sanctioned health advice for international travel. Every facet of the previous edition has been revisited and revised where necessary, including country-by-country immunization suggestions and new drug information. For the avid or first-time international traveller, this book is a both a prophylaxis and a safety net, providing readers everything they need to know to prevent (and address) illness abroad.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1-Introduction
  • Introduction to Travel Health and the Yellow Book
  • Planning for Healthy Travel: Responsibilities and Resources
  • Travel Epidemiology
  • Travel Medicine Data Collection: GeoSentinel and TravEpiNet
  • Perspectives: The Role of the Traveler in Translocation of Disease
  • Perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ
  • Chapter 2-The Pre-Travel Consultation
  • The Pre-Travel Consultation
  • Perspectives: Risks Travelers Face
  • Perspectives: Prioritizing for the Resource-Limited Traveler
  • General Recommendations for Vaccination and Immunoprophylaxis
  • Drug-Vaccine and Drug-Drug Interactions
  • Perspectives: Fear of Vaccines
  • Self-Treatable Conditions
  • Self-Treatable Conditions
  • Travelers' Diarrhea
  • History of the Definition and Management of Travelers' Diarrhea
  • Altitude Illness
  • History of Recognition and Management of Altitude Illness
  • Jet Lag
  • Motion Sickness
  • Respiratory Infections
  • Occupational Exposure to HIV
  • Counseling and Advice for Travelers
  • Food and Water Precautions
  • Perspectives: Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea-It's Not Only WHAT You Eat and Drink
  • Water Disinfection for Travelers
  • Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins
  • Protection against Mosquitoes, Ticks, and Other Insects and Arthropods
  • Sunburn
  • Problems with Heat and Cold
  • Injuries and Safety
  • Perspectives: Terrorism
  • Animal-Associated Hazards
  • Natural Disasters and Environmental Hazards
  • Scuba Diving
  • Medical Tourism
  • Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
  • Mental Health and Travel
  • Travel Health Kits
  • Perspectives: Pharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeit Drugs
  • Obtaining Health Care Abroad for the Ill Traveler
  • Travel Health Insurance and Evacuation Insurance
  • Chapter 3-Infectious Diseases Related to Travel
  • Amebiasis
  • Angiostrongyliasis (Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection, Neurologic Angiostrongyliasis)
  • Anthrax
  • Bartonella-Associated Infections
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacter Enteritis
  • Chikungunya
  • Cholera
  • Coccidioidomycosis
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cutaneous Larva Migrans
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Cysticercosis
  • Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Diphtheria
  • Echinococcosis
  • Escherichia coli
  • Fascioliasis
  • Filariasis, Lymphatic
  • Giardiasis
  • Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Helminths, Intestinal
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis E
  • Histoplasmosis
  • HIV and AIDS
  • Human Papillomavirus
  • Influenza (Seasonal, Zoonotic, and Pandemic)
  • Japanese Encephalitis
  • Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever)
  • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
  • Leishmaniasis, Visceral
  • Leptospirosis
  • Lyme Disease
  • Malaria
  • History of Malaria Chemoprophylaxis
  • Measles (Rubeola)
  • Melioidosis
  • Meningococcal Disease
  • Mumps
  • Norovirus
  • Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
  • Pertussis
  • Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm)
  • Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic)
  • Pneumococcal Disease (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Q Fever
  • Rabies
  • Perspectives: Intradermal Rabies Vaccine
  • Rickettsial (Spotted and Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections (Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis)
  • Rubella
  • Salmonella (Nontyphoidal)
  • Scabies (Sarcoptic Itch, Sarcoptic Acariasis)
  • Schistosomiasis
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Perspectives: Sex Tourism
  • Shigellosis
  • Smallpox and Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections
  • Strongyloidiasis
  • Taeniasis
  • Tetanus
  • Tickborne Encephalitis
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Trypanosomiasis, African (Human African Trypanosomiasis, African Sleeping Sickness)
  • Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Perspectives: Tuberculin Skin Testing of Travelers
  • Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
  • Varicella (Chickenpox)
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
  • Yellow Fever
  • History of Yellow Fever Vaccine Requirements
  • Yersiniosis
  • Travel Vaccines and Malaria Information, by Country
  • Chapter 4-Select Destinations
  • Rationale for Select Destinations
  • Africa
  • East Africa: Safaris
  • Tanzania: Kilimanjaro
  • South Africa
  • Americas
  • Argentina/Brazil: Iguassu Falls
  • The Caribbean
  • Guatemala and Belize
  • Mexico
  • Peru: Cuzco-Machu Picchu
  • Asia
  • Cambodia: Angkor Wat
  • China
  • India
  • Nepal
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia: Hajj Pilgrimage
  • Egypt and Nile River Cruises
  • Chapter 5-Post-Travel Evaluation
  • General Approach to the Returned Traveler
  • Fever in Returned Travelers
  • Persistent Travelers' Diarrhea
  • Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Returned Travelers
  • Asymptomatic Post-Travel Screening
  • Chapter 6-Conveyance and Transportation Issues
  • Air Travel
  • Cruise Ship Travel
  • Perspectives: What to Expect when Traveling during an International Outbreak
  • Death during Travel
  • Taking Animals and Animal Products across International Borders
  • Chapter 7-International Travel with Infants and Children
  • Traveling Safely with Infants and Children
  • Vaccine Recommendations for Infants and Children
  • Travel and Breastfeeding
  • International Adoption
  • Chapter 8-Advising Travelers with Specific Needs
  • Immunocompromised Travelers
  • Travelers with Chronic Illnesses
  • Pregnant Travelers
  • Travelers with Disabilities
  • Immigrants Returning Home To Visit Friends and Relatives (VFRs)
  • Advice for Air Crews
  • Humanitarian Aid Workers
  • Long-Term Travelers and Expatriates
  • Perspectives: Long-term Travel and Malaria Prophylaxis
  • Last-Minute Travelers
  • Special Considerations for US Military Deployments
  • Study Abroad
  • Travel to Mass Gatherings
  • Chapter 9-Health Considerations for Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees
  • Introduction
  • Before Arrival in the United States: Panel Physicians and the Overseas Medical Examination
  • Arrival in the United States: Process, Health Status, and Screening of Refugees and Immigrants
  • Migrant Health Resources
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel Medicine
  • Appendix B: Essential Electronic Resources for the Travel Medicine Practitioner
  • Appendix C: Travel Vaccine Summary Table
  • Appendix D: The HealthMap System

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    BB08564292
  • ISBN
    • 9780199769018
    • 9780199948499
    • 9780199379156
    • 9780190628611
    • 9780190928933
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    v.
  • Size
    26 cm
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