Herbert L. DuPont, Robert Steffen's Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health PDF

By Herbert L. DuPont, Robert Steffen

This finished quantity covers all elements of go back and forth drugs from infectious ailments to big populations, setting dangers, and health problems in another country and again domestic. easy concerns similar to pre-travel making plans, health center amenities and future health dangers in a foreign country are elaborated as a starting place for medical discussions. Emphasises prevention and public well-being hazards.

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However, on the evidence, the right name is surely only Homo vagansin recent decades at leastas human beings are remarkable for the scale and frequency of their wanderings. Moreover, these characteristics contrast with those of most other species by their irregularity and diversity. Total tourist journeys per year are estimated (in Chapter 5) at 5000 million, equal to the world's population, and on top of these are all the movements in search of work and the unhappy and unwilling migrations of refugee populations.

Future Enteric Vaccines DAVID N. D. 3. D. Medical Director, Centre de Médecine de Voyage du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada 4. D. 2. D. 2. Other Important Viral Infections in Travelers MARGARET A. D. National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 6. Health Information for International Travel THEODORE F. H. 1. Arboviruses and Zoonotic Viruses THOMAS H. H. Chief Executive Officer, VEI Incorporated, McLean, Virginia 20. D. Research Fellow, Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, WHO Collaborating Center for the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis; Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 23.

C. [/PU][DP]1997[/DP]End of Citation Page 362 Arthropods, 249, 250, 341 Ascariasis, 243-44, 251 Asia Pacific region, 41-44 insect-borne infections, 204 Atovaquone, 113 Atypical mycobacteria, 223-24 Australia, 39-41 insect-borne infections, 205 Automobile accidents. See Motor vehicle accidents Azalides, 95 Azithromycin, 95, 112-13 AZT. See Zidovudine B Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine. See BCG Bacterial tropical infections, 223-34 atypical mycobacteria and Buruli ulcer, 223-24 endemic treponematosis, 229-31 leprosy, 224-25 melioidosis, 229 plague, 226-28 rickettsial typhus, 225-26 trachoma, 228-29 Balantidiasis, 247 Barotrauma, 63, 64, 265-66 Bartonellosis, 232-33 BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin) vaccine, 151-53, 156, 158, 160-61, 224, 304, 306, 314 Beach tourism, 24 Bednets, 105-6 Behavior, 17-18 and travelers' diarrhea, 83 See also Sexual activities Bejel, 229-31 Bilharziasis.

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