Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are
infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need
not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to
you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response.
The result is the concept of 'travel medicine' as a separate
discipline. This book describes the evolution of travel medicine,
travel vaccines, malaria prophylaxis and infections of adventure
and leisure.
This book is unique and different to the standard textbooks on
travel medicine. It provides rare insights into many of the
behind-the-scenes in travel medicine, personal stories of failures
and successes of travel medicine practitioners, the 'real life'
tales that unravel the science behind travel medicine. We believe
that the best lessons are learned from personal stories.
Not every travel is fun. Some travel is for a cause, be it
religious or humanitarian, or be it to escape certain political
systems. We have added stories on the tragedies of so-called
'undocumented refugees', and stories written by colleagues who were
involved in humanitarian care. Pilgrimages attract large number of
'travelers' and yet we know so little about these pilgrimages.
Chapters on the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian pilgrimages
aim to correct this.
Diseases also travel. The spread of global diseases and pandemics
is fascinating. This book provides an overview of the pandemics, in
particular that of cholera, yellow fever, severe acute respiratory
syndrome and influenza. Globalization, migration and health lead to
a history of disease and disparity in the global village - our
world. And what about the revised International HealthRegulations-
what do we need to know about them in the context of travel
medicine?
In the next millennium, our world will have inherited further
global movement. It may even include travel to aerospace. The
'Epilogue' awakes some of our old dreams - the last frontier, space
travel...
Annelies Wilder-Smith has lived in China, Papua New Guinea, Nepal,
New Zealand, and Switzerland. She is currently based in Singapore
from where she continues to travel extensively throughout Asia. She
is the Head of the Travellers Health' Vaccination Centre in
Singapore, one of the largest travel clinics in Asia. She was in a
unique position to do research on W135 meningococcal disease in
Hajj pilgrims during the outbreak. She 'lived through' the SARS
epidemic in Singapore.
Eli Schwartz is the Director of the Center for Geographic Medicine
and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University,
Israel. Eli is a 'real' tropical medicine specialist. He obtained
all his experience in the field, including Nepal, Tibet, and
numerous adventure travels to Africa where he prefers to do his
studies on the sides of the Omo River.
Marc Shaw is a passionate traveler, doctor, actor and observer of
fine humor. His favorite pastime is to be an expedition doctor.
This has taken him to exotic places such as Namibia, Mongolia,
Pitcairn Islands, and to the Amazon. He is the Director of
WORLDWIDE Travellers' Health Centres in New Zealand.
* Unique and rare insights into the behind-the-scenes world of
travel medicine including personal stories of both successes and
failures from practitioners
* Studies the development of Travel Medicine as a new discipline in
response to the overwhelminginterest in travel and its
ramifications for health
* Provides a history of the International Society of Travel
Medicine
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