The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections
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The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections

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eBook - ePub

The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections

About this book

The last thing a world traveler wants is to get sick. To stay healthy, travelers need to protect themselves from viruses, bacteria, and parasites, including many they have seldom, if ever, encountered. With precise, simple explanations, this indispensable guide helps international travelers avoid common—and uncommon—infections wherever they go.

Relating important medical findings, Dr. Charles E. Davis provides the latest recommendations for healthy travel planning. He describes the precautions travelers can take to prevent infection, including

• pre-trip travel clinic visits
• essential immunizations and medications
• travel insurance and medical kits
• safe food and water practices
• personal protection measures
• post-trip checkups

The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections is organized by disease, with highly accessible discussions and detailed illustrations of all the major travelers' infections. Maps make it easy to see where infections are commonly acquired, and specific prevention strategies for each destination enhance travel planning.

Tourists and professionals such as military personnel, journalists, aid workers, and businesspeople need the tools provided here to stay healthy during their trip and after they return home.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Preface
  8. Part I. Sources of Travel Advice
  9. 1. Personal Physicians and Travel Clinics
  10. 2. Websites for Travelers
  11. 3. Medical and Evacuation Insurance
  12. 4. Overseas Medical Care and Medical Tourism
  13. Part II. Pre-Travel Planning
  14. 5. Devising a Prevention Strategy
  15. 6. The Geographic Distribution of Major Travelers’ Infections
  16. 7. Immunizations
  17. 8. Personal Protection Measures
  18. 9. Drug Prophylaxis and Self-Treatment
  19. 10. Special Circumstances
  20. 11. Travel Medical Kits
  21. Part III. Bacterial Infections
  22. 12. What You—and Your Doctor—Need to Know about Bacteria
  23. 13. Typhoid Fever
  24. 14. Plague
  25. 15. Cholera
  26. 16. Leptospirosis
  27. 17. Typhus and Other Rickettsial Infections
  28. 18. Oroya, Trench, and Q Fevers
  29. 19. Relapsing Fevers
  30. 20. Anthrax, Brucellosis, and Listeriosis
  31. 21. Bacterial Meningitis
  32. 22. Tuberculosis
  33. Part IV. Viral Infections
  34. 23. What You—and Your Doctor—Need to Know about Viruses
  35. 24. Arbovirus Infections: An Overview
  36. 25. Yellow Fever
  37. 26. Dengue Fever
  38. 27. Other Arboviruses
  39. 28. Ebola and Other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
  40. 29. Poliomyelitis
  41. 30. Acute Viral Hepatitis
  42. 31. Rabies
  43. 32. Influenza
  44. Part V. Parasitic Infections
  45. 33. What You—and Your Doctor—Need to Know about Parasites
  46. 34. Malaria
  47. 35. Amebiasis
  48. 36. Leishmaniasis
  49. 37. African and American Trypanosomiasis
  50. 38. Intestinal Roundworm Infections
  51. 39. Tissue Roundworm Infections
  52. 40. Schistosomiasis and Other Flatworm Infections
  53. Part VI. Infections Caused by Multiple Microbes
  54. 41. Sexually Transmitted Infections
  55. 42. Travelers’ Diarrhea
  56. 43. Tropical Skin Infections and Infestations
  57. Part VII. Post-Travel Considerations
  58. 44. Fever in Returning Travelers
  59. 45. Post-Travel Screening: Yes or No?
  60. Glossary
  61. References
  62. Index