International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections

AvCharles E. Davis

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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; 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 32 mm
Vikt:748 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Antal sidor:544
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421403809

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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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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 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 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 This work offers much practical and sound medical advice to travelers. Reference and Research Book News 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 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 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 The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections presents well-written and well-organized information on geographic infectious diseases. JAMA 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. -- Nancy Parode About.com

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures and TablesPrefacePart I: Sources of Travel Advice1. Personal Physicians and Travel Clinics2. Websites for Travelers3. Medical and Evacuation Insurance4. Overseas Medical Care and Medical TourismPart II: Pre-Travel Planning5. Devising a Prevention Strategy6. The Geographic Distribution of Major Travelers' Infections7. Immunizations8. Personal Protection Measures9. Drug Prophylaxis and Self-Treatment10. Special Circumstances11. Travel Medical KitsPart III: Bacterial Infections12. What You—and Your Doctor—Need to Know about Bacteria13. Typhoid Fever14. Plague15. Cholera16. Leptospirosis17. Typhus and Other Rickettsial Infections18. Oroya, Trench, and Q Fevers19. Relapsing Fevers20. Anthrax, Brucellosis, and Listeriosis21. Bacterial Meningitis22. TuberculosisPart IV: Viral Infections23. What You—and Your Doctor —Need to Know about Viruses24. Arbovirus Infections: An Overview25. Yellow Fever26. Dengue Fever27. Other Arboviruses28. Ebola and Other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers29. Poliomyelitis30. Acute Viral Hepatitis31. Rabies32. InfluenzaPart V: Parasitic Infections33. What You—and Your Doctor—Need to Know about Parasites34. Malaria35. Amebiasis36. Leishmaniasis37. African and American Trypanosomiasis38. Intestinal Roundworm Infections39. Tissue Roundworm Infections40. Schistosomiasis and Other Flatworm InfectionsPart VI: Infections Caused by Multiple Microbes41. Sexually Transmitted Infections42. Travelers' Diarrhea43. Tropical Skin Infections and InfestationsPart VII: Post-Travel Considerations44. Fever in Returning Travelers45. Post-Travel Screening: Yes or No?GlossaryReferencesIndex