Introduction
Although when leaving for an international mission we might be more preoccupied by the books we will need to carry out our job at best and food comodities, we must not forget what prtains to travel medicine. Conversely we may be called as MDs to give advice to fellow travellers in developing or emergency striken contexts. This section aims at providing dependable resources where to find answers to our questions.
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Behaviour
Awarness is the first step to avoiding unpleasant surprises during you international missions. Behaviour can radically change your canches of exposure to diseases transmitted by vectors such as mosquitos as well as water-born, food-born and sexually transmitted diseases.
Food safety
WHO has produced the "Safe food for travellers" guide available in seven languages providing basic information to prevent diseases caused by unsafe food and drink.
WHO and CDC
The first 9 chapters of International Travel and Health, a yearly WHO publication available online, deal extensively with aspects related to health risks and precautions during travel. They cover topics such as the mode of travel, environmental health risks,injuries and violence, infectious diseases of potential risk for travellers, vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines and exposure to blood or other body fluids. You can also check out chapters 2 and 6-9 of the CDC yearly updated Yellow Book also available online.
Prophylaxis
Drug prophylaxis and vaccination protocols by country are available from WHO (green book) and CDC (yellow book). The relevant links are available for you below.
WHO
In the International Travel and Health Book published by WHO there is a section dedicated to each country with information as to cumpulsory and suggested vaccinations and prophylaxis.
CDC
The CDC book presents monographies for infectious diseases of relevance to travel medicine (chaoter 4) and regional overviews (chaoter 3) and country specific situations on yellow fever vaccination requirements an malaria (chapter 5).