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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 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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      • Library Journal

        June 1, 2012

        Many people who travel internationally are at risk of picking up unwanted souvenirs in the form of microbes, bacteria, and parasites. Davis (pathology & medicine, emeritus, Univ. of California, San Diego) provides advice about what to do before, during, and after a trip to prevent infection and explains options if an illness does occur. Pre-travel planning advice covers immunizations, personal preventative measures, traveling with children, immune-compromised travelers, and information for adventurous travelers more likely to come into contact with diseases. Maps and tables illustrate regions where specific diseases are endemic, and suggestions include what to carry in a medical kit. The chapters on bacterial, viral, parasitic, and multiple microbial infections review tests and laboratory procedures and give detailed information on diseases. Symptoms and treatments are listed for conditions including typhoid, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, and many more exotic diseases. In case prevention measures fail, a chapter called "Post-Travel Considerations" covers what to tell your doctor and whether screenings are needed for tuberculosis, malaria, or parasites. VERDICT Essential for international travelers.--Susanne Caro, Univ. of Montana Lib., Missoula

        Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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