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The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections

The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections

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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 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.

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Table of Content

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