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 commonand uncommoninfections 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 checkupsThe 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.
List of Figures and Tables Preface Part I: Sources of Travel Advice 1. Personal Physicians and Travel Clinics 2. Websites for Travelers 3. Medical and Evacuation Insurance 4. Overseas Medical Care and Medical Tourism Part II: Pre-Travel Planning 5. Devising a Prevention Strategy 6. The Geographic Distribution of Major Travelers' Infections 7. Immunizations 8. Personal Protection Measures 9. Drug Prophylaxis and Self-Treatment 10. Special Circumstances 11. Travel Medical Kits Part III: Bacterial Infections 12. What Youand Your DoctorNeed to Know about Bacteria 13. Typhoid Fever 14. Plague 15. Cholera 16. Leptospirosis 17. Typhus and Other Rickettsial Infections 18. Oroya, Trench, and Q Fevers 19. Relapsing Fevers 20. Anthrax, Brucellosis, and Listeriosis 21. Bacterial Meningitis 22. Tuberculosis Part IV: Viral Infections 23. What Youand Your Doctor Need to Know about Viruses 24. Arbovirus Infections: An Overview 25. Yellow Fever 26. Dengue Fever 27. Other Arboviruses 28. Ebola and Other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers 29. Poliomyelitis 30. Acute Viral Hepatitis 31. Rabies 32. Influenza Part V: Parasitic Infections 33. What Youand Your DoctorNeed to Know about Parasites 34. Malaria 35. Amebiasis 36. Leishmaniasis 37. African and American Trypanosomiasis 38. Intestinal Roundworm Infections 39. Tissue Roundworm Infections 40. Schistosomiasis and Other Flatworm Infections Part VI: Infections Caused by Multiple Microbes 41. Sexually Transmitted Infections 42. Travelers' Diarrhea 43. Tropical Skin Infections and Infestations Part VII: Post-Travel Considerations 44. Fever in Returning Travelers 45. Post-Travel Screening: Yes or No? Glossary References Index
""Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. Dr. Davis has written a book that will serve as an incredibly valuable travel resource for many types of travelers... A must read book for anyone traveling to tropical areas, sub-Saharan Africa and developing nations.""
