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CDC Yellow Book 2020 (eBook, ePUB)

Health Information for International Travel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2020! "A beloved travel must-have for the intrepid wanderer." -Publishers Weekly "A truly excellent and comprehensive resource." -Journal of Hospital Infection The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad. This 2020 edition includes: ? Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps ? Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis ? Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea ? Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations ? Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings ? Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs ? Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations ? Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance ? Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries ? Recommendations for traveling with infants and children ? Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers ? Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field -- and an ever-changing world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190928957
• Artikelnr.: 56716937

Autorenporträt

About the Editors in Chief: Gary W. Brunette, MD, MS, is Chief of the Travelers' Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD, is Senior Medical Officer and Clinical Team Lead of the Travelers' Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1 Introduction
* Introduction to Travel Health and the CDC Yellow Book
* Travel Epidemiology
* Perspectives: WHY GUIDELINES DIFFER
* Air Travel Trends
* 2 Preparing International Travelers
* The Pretravel Consultation
* Perspectives: TRAVELERS' PERCEPTION OF RISK
* Last-Minute Travelers
* Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches
* Prioritizing Care for the Resource-Limited Traveler
* Telemedicine
* Perspectives: LEGAL ISSUES FOR CLINICIANS
* Vaccination and Immunoprophylaxis: General Recommendations
* Interactions among Travel Vaccines and Drugs
* Yellow Fever and Malaria Information, by Country
* Food and Water Precautions
* Water Disinfection
* Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins
* Travelers' Diarrhea
* Perspectives: ANTIBIOTICS IN TRAVELERS' DIARRHEA-BALANCING THE RISKS
and BENEFITS
* 3 Environmental Hazards and Other Noninfectious Health Risks
*
* Injury and Trauma
* Mental Health
* Safety and Security Overseas
* Mosquitoes, Ticks and Other Arthropods
* Sun Exposure
* Extremes of Temperature
* Air Quality and Ionizing Radiation
* Animal Bites and Stings (Zoonotic Exposures)
* Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness and Other Dive-Related Injuries
* Perspectives: ZOONOSES: THE ONE HEALTH APPROACH
* High-Altitude Travel and Altitude Illness
* 4 Travel-Related Infectious Diseases
* Amebiasis
* Angiostrongyliasis, Neurologic
* Anthrax
* B virus
* Bartonella Infections
* Brucellosis
* Campylobacteriosis
* Chikungunya
* Cholera
* Coccidioidomycosis
* Cryptosporidiosis
* Cutaneous Larva Migrans
* Cyclosporiasis
* Cysticercosis
* Dengue
* Diphtheria
* Echinococcosis
* Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic
* Fascioliasis
* Filariasis, Lymphatic
* Flukes, Lung
* Giardiasis
* Hand, Footand Mouth Disease
* Helicobacter pylori
* Helminths, Soil-Transmitted
* Hepatitis A
* Hepatitis B
* Hepatitis C
* Hepatitis E
* Histoplasmosis
* HIV Infection
* Influenza
* Japanese Encephalitis
* Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever)
* Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
* Leishmaniasis, Visceral
* Leptospirosis
* Lyme Disease
* Malaria
* Measles (Rubeola)
* Melioidosis
* Meningococcal Disease
* Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
* Mumps
* Norovirus
* Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
* Pertussis
* Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm)
* Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic)
* Pneumococcal Disease
* Poliomyelitis
* Q Fever
* Rabies
* Perspectives: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO RABIES IMMUNIZATION
* Rickettsial (Spotted and Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections,
including Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis
* Rubella
* Salmonellosis (Nontyphoidal)
* Sarcocystosis
* Scabies
* Schistosomiasis
* Shigellosis
* Smallpox and Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections
* Strongyloidiasis
* Taeniasis
* Tetanus
* Tickborne Encephalitis
* Toxoplasmosis
* Trypanosomiasis, African (Sleeping Sickness)
* Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease)
* Tuberculosis
* Perspectives: SCREENING TRAVELERS FOR TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION
* Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
* Varicella (Chickenpox)
* Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
* Yellow Fever
* Yersiniosis
* Zika Virus
* 5 Travelers with Additional Considerations
* Immunocompromised Travelers
* Travelers with Disabilities
* Travelers with Chronic Illnesses
* 6 Health Care Abroad
* Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance and Medical Evacuation
Insurance
* Perspectives: PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY and FALSIFIED DRUGS
* Travel Health Kits
* 7 Family Travel
* Pregnant Travelers
* Travel and Breastfeeding
* Traveling Safely with Infants and Children
* Vaccine Recommendations for Infants and Children
* International Adoption
* 8 Travel by Air, Land and Sea
* Air Travel
* Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
* Jet Lag
* Road and Traffic Safety
* Cruise Ship Travel
* Motion Sickness
* 9 Work and Other Reasons for Travel
* Business Travel
* Aircrews
* Health Care Workers, including Public Health Researchers and Medical
Laboratorians
* Humanitarian Aid Workers
* US Military Deployments
* Long-Term Travelers and Expatriates
* Study Abroad and Other International Student Travel
* Visiting Friends and Relatives: VFR Travel
* Mass Gatherings
* Adventure Travel
* Sex and Travel
* 10 Select Destinations
* Rationale for Select Destinations
* Africa and the Middle East
* East Africa: Safaris
* Saudi Arabia: Hajj/Umrah Pilgrimage
* South Africa
* Tanzania: Kilimanjaro
* The Americas and the Caribbean
* Brazil
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Haiti
* Mexico
* Peru: Cusco, Machu Picchu and Other Regions
* Asia
* Burma (Myanmar)
* China
* India
* Nepal
* Thailand
* 11 Posttravel Evaluation
* General Approach to the Returned Traveler
* Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers
* Posttravel Evaluation: Fever
* Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases
* Sexually Transmitted Infections
* Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
* Respiratory Infections
* Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
* Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees
* 12 Appendices
* Appendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel Medicine
* Appendix B: Travel Vaccine Summary Table
* Appendix C: Death during Travel
* Appendix D: Airplanes and Cruise Ships: Illness and Death Reporting
and Public Health Interventions
* Appendix E: Taking Animals and Animal Products across International
Borders
* Index
* Photography Credits