Is Vaccination Worthwhile Before Travel?

Wiedermann, G

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-73772-5_35

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“…However, our results indicate clearly that many travellers leave Austria with an unclear status of immunization against tetanus and polio, although there are clear positive cost-benefit and risk-benefit ratios for these two vaccinations (17) and immunity against these two diseases is recommended for travellers (13).…”

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Compliance of austrian tourists with prophylactic measures

Kollaritsch

Wiedermann

1992

Eur J Epidemiol

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Physicians dealing with prophylactic measures for tourists going to developing countries will often not be able to foresee the outcome of their recommendations. Therefore an open study with 2,627 Austrian tourists on their flight home from a tropical destination was carried out to evaluate the behaviour of typical short-term travellers with respect to different kinds of precautionary measures. 94.1% of all tourists informed themselves before travelling abroad, but a high proportion of travellers tends to contact only their travel agency or their personal friends, this leading to inadequate information. Regarding the individual performance of precautionary measures the results indicate a few principal conclusions: Among the recommended inoculations the vaccinations against typhoid fever, poliomyelitis and tetanus are widely underestimated, the latter two in particular for adults, while compliance with the passive immunization against Hepatitis A is generally good (more than 80% of all travellers receive Hepatitis A immunoglobulins prophylactically). The most crucial point seems to be the chemoprophylaxis against malaria in as much as a) there seems to be a considerable lack of information about malaria endemic areas among physicians, b) tourists tend to use the most simple applicable drug unaware of epidemiological considerations and c) the regular intake of chemoprophylaxis declines significantly with the complexity of the intake procedure. In addition, tourists are in general well informed about nutritional risks, but only half of them will receive adequate information on the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and a basic medical travel kit.

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“…Although vaccination against cholera is not a barrier against dissemination, it may afford a certain measure of individual protection and the vaccination has a positive benefit-risk ratio (17). However, the vaccination against cholera is the most controversial in modern tourism (15).…”

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confidence: 99%