Description
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 InfectionThe 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 refugeesLong 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.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction Introduction to Travel Health & the CDC Yellow BookTravel EpidemiologyPerspectives: WHY GUIDELINES DIFFERAir Travel Trends2 Preparing International Travelers The Pretravel ConsultationPerspectives: TRAVELERS' PERCEPTION OF RISKLast-Minute TravelersComplementary & Integrative Health ApproachesPrioritizing Care for the Resource-Limited TravelerTelemedicinePerspectives: LEGAL ISSUES FOR CLINICIANSVaccination & Immunoprophylaxis: General RecommendationsInteractions among Travel Vaccines & DrugsYellow Fever & Malaria Information, by CountryFood & Water PrecautionsWater DisinfectionFood Poisoning from Marine ToxinsTravelers' DiarrheaPerspectives: ANTIBIOTICS IN TRAVELERS' DIARRHEA-BALANCING THE RISKS & BENEFITS3 Environmental Hazards & Other Noninfectious Health Risks Injury & TraumaMental HealthSafety & Security OverseasMosquitoes, Ticks & Other ArthropodsSun ExposureExtremes of TemperatureAir Quality & Ionizing RadiationAnimal Bites & Stings (Zoonotic Exposures)Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-Related InjuriesPerspectives: ZOONOSES: THE ONE HEALTH APPROACHHigh-Altitude Travel & Altitude Illness4 Travel-Related Infectious Diseases AmebiasisAngiostrongyliasis, NeurologicAnthraxB virusBartonella InfectionsBrucellosisCampylobacteriosisChikungunyaCholeraCoccidioidomycosisCryptosporidiosisCutaneous Larva MigransCyclosporiasisCysticercosisDengueDiphtheriaEchinococcosisEscherichia coli, DiarrheagenicFascioliasisFilariasis, LymphaticFlukes, LungGiardiasisHand, Foot& Mouth DiseaseHelicobacter pyloriHelminths, Soil-TransmittedHepatitis AHepatitis BHepatitis CHepatitis EHistoplasmosisHIV InfectionInfluenzaJapanese EncephalitisLegionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever)Leishmaniasis, CutaneousLeishmaniasis, VisceralLeptospirosisLyme DiseaseMalariaMeasles (Rubeola)MelioidosisMeningococcal DiseaseMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)MumpsNorovirusOnchocerciasis (River Blindness)PertussisPinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm)Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic)Pneumococcal DiseasePoliomyelitisQ FeverRabiesPerspectives: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO RABIES IMMUNIZATIONRickettsial (Spotted & Typhus Fevers) & Related Infections, including Anaplasmosis & EhrlichiosisRubellaSalmonellosis (Nontyphoidal)SarcocystosisScabiesSchistosomiasisShigellosisSmallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated InfectionsStrongyloidiasisTaeniasisTetanusTickborne EncephalitisToxoplasmosisTrypanosomiasis, African (Sleeping Sickness)Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease)TuberculosisPerspectives: SCREENING TRAVELERS FOR TUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONTyphoid & Paratyphoid FeverVaricella (Chickenpox)Viral Hemorrhagic FeversYellow FeverYersiniosisZika Virus5 Travelers with Additional Considerations Immunocompromised TravelersTravelers with DisabilitiesTravelers with Chronic Illnesses6 Health Care AbroadTravel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation InsurancePerspectives: PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY & FALSIFIED DRUGSTravel Health Kits7 Family Travel Pregnant TravelersTravel & BreastfeedingTraveling Safely with Infants & ChildrenVaccine Recommendations for Infants & ChildrenInternational Adoption8 Travel by Air, Land & Sea Air TravelDeep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary EmbolismJet LagRoad & Traffic SafetyCruise Ship TravelMotion Sickness9 Work & Other Reasons for Travel Business TravelAircrewsHealth Care Workers, including Public Health Researchers & Medical LaboratoriansHumanitarian Aid WorkersUS Military DeploymentsLong-Term Travelers & ExpatriatesStudy Abroad & Other International Student TravelVisiting Friends & Relatives: VFR TravelMass GatheringsAdventure TravelSex & Travel10 Select DestinationsRationale for Select DestinationsAfrica & the Middle EastEast Africa: SafarisSaudi Arabia: Hajj/Umrah PilgrimageSouth AfricaTanzania: KilimanjaroThe Americas & the Caribbean BrazilCubaDominican RepublicHaitiMexicoPeru: Cusco, Machu Picchu & Other RegionsAsia Burma (Myanmar)ChinaIndiaNepalThailand11 Posttravel EvaluationGeneral Approach to the Returned TravelerScreening Asymptomatic Returned TravelersPosttravel Evaluation: FeverRapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious DiseasesSexually Transmitted InfectionsSkin & Soft Tissue InfectionsRespiratory InfectionsPersistent Diarrhea in Returned TravelersNewly Arrived Immigrants & Refugees12 AppendicesAppendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel MedicineAppendix B: Travel Vaccine Summary TableAppendix C: Death during TravelAppendix D: Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health InterventionsAppendix E: Taking Animals & Animal Products across International BordersIndexPhotography Credits
