Travel
Medicine
Travel medicine is what's keeping you safe and healthy when you travel internationally. It is the whole practice of providing pre-travel preventative care and includes:
Providing immunizations
Providing preventative medications such as antimalarials and antidiarrheals
Education on precautions regarding food and water, insect bites, altitude sickness, etc.
Information on environmental hazards such as pollution, high altitude, and traffic safety
Preparing and addressing traveler’s special needs such as those with diabetes and infants
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Travel by Location
These are the recommended vaccines by medical experts on each location.
Vaccines for SouthEast Asia
Vaccines for SouthEast AsiaVaccines for Caribbean and Mexico
Vaccines for Caribbean and MexicoVaccines for Europe
Vaccines for EuropeVaccines for Oceania
Vaccines for OceaniaVaccines for South America
Vaccines for South AmericaShow More
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Travel Diseases
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These are the most common travel diseases that are fatal but easily preventable
CHIKUNGUNYA
In a language spoken in Tanzania and Mozambique, ‘Chikungunya’ means ‘walking bent over’, which may result from severe joint pain
DIPHTHERIA
An estimated 5-10% of people who get the infection will die from complications
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS
JE virus is the most important cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.
MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
RABIES
Rabies is a viral disease, which occurs in more than 150 countries and territories.
Once symptoms are present, rabies is almost always fatal.
TRAVELLER'S DIARRHEA
Approximately 20% of travellers are confined to bed for 1–2 days with travellers’ diarrhoea, and 40% have to change their travel plans
YELLOW FEVER
This refers to jaundice that affects some patients.
It is an endemic and intermittently an epidemic in parts of Africa and South America.
CHOLERA
Cholera is a serious public health problem worldwide
HEPATITIS A
Recovery from the illness can take people up to weeks or months, leading to time absent from work, school, or daily life
LYME DISEASE
A red, bullseye shaped rash (also known as erythema migrans)
PERTUSSIS
(WHOOPING COUGH)
One out of two babies who get whooping cough infection before the age of one 1-year-old needs to be hospitalized.
TETANUS
Tetanus is caused by a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium tetani.
TYPHOID
Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi), which only lives in humans.
ZIKA
The species of mosquito that transmits Zika is the same as the mosquito that transmits Dengue, Chikungunya and Yellow Fever
DENGUE FEVER
An estimated 500,000 people with severe dengue hospitalization each year
HEPATITIS B
More than 686,000 people die every year due to complications of Hepatitis B, including cirrhosis and liver cancer
MALARIA
All travelers travelling to malaria-risk areas should take preventative malarial medications as a precautionary measure.
POLIO
Although polio is asymptomatic in the majority of cases, in approximately 1% of cases, it attacks the central nervous system and leads to paralysis.
TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS
TBE is a viral disease affecting the central nervous system.
TUBERCULOSIS
1 in 3 of the world's population have been infected with the TB bacteria but have not (yet) become ill as a result (known as talent TB)
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