Travel advice from embassies

Shafer, Robyn; Correia, Jason D.; Patel, Vishal; Keystone, JS

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)65670-x

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“…The many examples of inadequate advice rendered to travelers by those who were not knowledgeable in the field emphasize the importance of an adequate knowledge base. [11][12][13]15,[26][27][28] Training includes education and experience. A study of general practitioners who provided travel medicine care in Germany demonstrated a correlation between giving preventive advice on important topics with specific training in the discipline.…”

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Starting, Organizing, and Marketing a Travel Clinic

Hill¹,

Rosselot²

2008

Travel Medicine

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Starting, Organizing, and Marketing a Travel Clinic

Hill¹,

Rosselot²

2008

Travel Medicine

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“…Travel advice from embassies was in accord with that from the CDC only 38% of the time, according to one recent study. Egregious misadvice was encountered; e.g., spokespersons for countries with endemic yellow fever failed to mention that yellow fever immunization was required for entry (118)! As to the use of travel agents as a source of travel health information, one study in England found that only 24% of the agents mentioned the risk of malaria to travelers to sub-Saharan Africa (7).…”

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A week in the life of a travel clinic

Blair

1997

Clin Microbiol Rev

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International travel has increased enormously in recent years. With the greater movement of people have come increased encounters with a wide variety of diseases: malaria, dengue, cholera, typhoid fever, Ebola virus, and many more. The need for greater scope, consistency, and knowledgeability in pretravel health care to meet these challenges has been met by the emergence of the discipline of travel medicine. Travelers are well advised to become informed of the risks they face and to take steps to minimize those risks. After reviewing a traveler's medical history and a detailed itinerary, a travel medicine practitioner can offer expert advice on behavioral modifications, immunizations, and chemoprophylaxis regimens which will increase the traveler's margin of safety. The issues most frequently addressed in a travel clinic include treatment of traveler's diarrhea, malaria chemoprophylaxis, and immunizations, for hepatitis A, typhoid fever, tetanus/diphtheria, influenza, pneumococcus, hepatitis B, polio, meningococcus, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, and rabies. Pretravel consultation must consider the age and underlying health problems of the traveler, the nature of the trip (wilderness, jungle, rural, urban, resort, or cruise), the duration of travel, and the latest available information on the site in terms of disease outbreaks, terrorism, and natural calamities.

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“…1 Nonmedical resources are often consulted, and advice provided is not reliably accurate, potentially leaving travelers at risk to acquire illnesses abroad. [2][3][4] Presented in part at the 13th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine, Maastricht 2013, The Netherlands.…”

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