Overview

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; and 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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Author:   Charles E. Davis, MD (Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Medical Center)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9781421403793

ISBN 10:   142140379
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   10 August 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

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 You—and Your Doctor—Need 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 You—and 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 You—and Your Doctor—Need 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

Reviews

Davis... provides advice about what to do before, during, and after a trip to prevent infection and explains options if an illness does occur... VERDICT: Essential for international travelers. Library Journal A best new travel read... lists the essentials of a travel medical kit, outlines basic food and water practices, and details the viruses, bacteria, and parasites that may be encountered around the world. -- Scott Podmore Courier-Mail 2012 Follow his 'Considerations for ALL travelers' advice before zipping your suitcase shut and heading for the airport... and follow his 7 most important travel medical kit considerations to ensure the safest and healthiest travel experience possible. -- Timothy Boyer EmaxHealth 2012 This book is amazing and explains all the different types of infections worldwide... I will recommend this book to all my friends and family. Cybertron Reviews 2012 This work offers much practical and sound medical advice to travelers. Reference and Research Book News 2012 Fine health coverage for travelers who want the latest guidelines for avoiding common and uncommon infection around the world, and provides the latest recommendations... Any travel or international health collection must have this! Midwest Book Review 2012 This book is remarkable in its capacity to deliver essential knowledge that will enable travelers to be well informed and well prepared but also to cover a wide range of travel-related infections in suitable detail interspersed with historical anecdotes and facts... This book will be of great benefit to the 'worried well' traveler. -- Irani Ratnam Clinical Infectious Diseases 2013 This book is remarkable in its capacity to deliver essential knowledge that will enable travelers to be well informed and well prepared... Clinical Infections Diseases 2013 The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections presents well-written and well-organized information on geographic infectious diseases... JAMA 2012

Davis... provides advice about what to do before, during, and after a trip to prevent infection and explains options if an illness does occur... Essential for international travelers. Library Journal

Davis... provides advice about what to do before, during, and after a trip to prevent infection and explains options if an illness does occur... VERDICT: Essential for international travelers. Library Journal

Author Information

Charles E. Davis, M.D., a specialist in microbiology and infectious diseases, is professor emeritus of pathology and medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and director emeritus of microbiology at the UCSD medical center.

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