CDC Yellow Book 2024: Health Information for International Travel (CDC Health Information for International Travel)

Cover
CDC 
YELLOW BOOK 2024
Health Information for International Travel
Copyright
Contents
List of Maps, by Topic
CDC Contributors
External Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Dedication
1 INTRODUCTION
	Disease Patterns in Travelers
	...perspectives: WHY GUIDELINES DIFFER
	Maps & Travel Medicine
	Improving the Quality of Travel Medicine Through Education & Training
2 PREPARING INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS
	The Pretravel Consultation
	...perspectives: Travelers’ Perception of Risk
	Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis—​General Principles
	Interactions Between Travel Vaccines & Drugs
	Yellow Fever Vaccine & Malaria Prevention Information, by Country
	Travelers’ Diarrhea
	...perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers’ Diarrhea—​Balancing Benefit & Risk
	Food & Water Precautions
	Water Disinfection
	Travel Health Kits
	Last-​Minute Travelers
	Mental Health
	LGBTQ+​ Travelers
	Complementary & Integrative Health Approaches to Travel Wellness
	Prioritizing Care for Resource-​Limited Travelers
	Telemedicine
	...perspectives: Risk Management Issues in Travel Medicine
3 TRAVELERS WITH ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
	Immunocompromised Travelers
	Travelers with Disabilities
	Travelers with Chronic Illnesses
	Highly Allergic Travelers
	Substance Use & Substance Use Disorders
4 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS & RISKS
	Sun Exposure
	Extremes of Temperature
	Air Quality & Ionizing Radiation
	Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-​Related Injuries
	High Elevation Travel & Altitude Illness
	Mosquitoes, Ticks & Other Arthropods
	Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches & Other Hazards
	Zoonoses—​The One Health Approach
	Bringing Animals & Animal Products into the United States
	Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins
	Safety & Security Overseas
	Injury & Trauma
	Death During Travel
5 TRAVEL-​ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS & DISEASES
	PART 1: BACTERIAL
	Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Bacterial
	Anthrax
	Bartonella Infections
	Brucellosis
	Campylobacteriosis
	Cholera
	Diphtheria
	Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic
	Helicobacter pylori
	Legionnaires’ Disease & Pontiac Fever
	Leptospirosis
	Lyme Disease
	Melioidosis
	Meningococcal Disease
	Pertussis /​ Whooping Cough
	Plague
	Pneumococcal Disease
	Q Fever
	Rickettsial Diseases
	Salmonellosis, Nontyphoidal
	Shigellosis
	Tetanus
	Tuberculosis
	...perspectives: Testing Travelers for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
	Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever
	Yersiniosis
	PART 2: VIRAL
	Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Viral
	B Virus
	Chikungunya
	COVID-​19
	Dengue
	Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease
	Henipavirus Infections
	Hepatitis A
	Hepatitis B
	Hepatitis C
	Hepatitis E
	Human Immunodeficiency Virus /​ HIV
	Influenza
	Japanese Encephalitis
	Middle East Respiratory Syndrome /​ MERS
	Mumps
	Norovirus
	Poliomyelitis
	Rabies
	...perspectives: Rabies Immunization
	Rubella
	Rubeola /​ Measles
	Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-​Associated Infections
	Tick-​Borne Encephalitis
	Varicella /​ Chickenpox
	Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
	Yellow Fever
	Zika
	PART 3: PARASITIC
	Amebiasis
	Angiostrongyliasis
	Cryptosporidiosis
	Cutaneous Larva Migrans
	Cyclosporiasis
	Cysticercosis
	Echinococcosis
	Enterobiasis /​ Pinworm
	Filariasis, Lymphatic
	Flukes, Liver
	Flukes, Lung
	Giardiasis
	Helminths, Soil-​Transmitted
	Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
	Leishmaniasis, Visceral
	Malaria
	Onchocerciasis /​ River Blindness
	Sarcocystosis
	Scabies
	Schistosomiasis
	Strongyloidiasis
	Taeniasis
	Toxoplasmosis
	Trypanosomiasis, African
	Trypanosomiasis, American /​ Chagas Disease
	PART 4: FUNGAL
	Coccidioidomycosis /​ Valley Fever
	Histoplasmosis
6 HEALTH CARE ABROAD
	Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation Insurance
	Obtaining Health Care Abroad
	...perspectives: Avoiding Poorly Regulated Medicines & Medical Products During Travel
	Medical Tourism
7 FAMILY TRAVEL
	Pregnant Travelers
	Travel & Breastfeeding
	Traveling Safely with Infants & Children
	Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children
	International Adoption
	Traveling with Pets & Service Animals
8 TRAVEL BY AIR, LAND & SEA
	Air Travel
	...perspectives: Responding to Medical Emergencies when Flying
	Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism
	Jet Lag
	Road & Traffic Safety
	Cruise Ship Travel
	Motion Sickness
	Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health Interventions
9 TRAVEL FOR WORK & OTHER REASONS
	The International Business Traveler
	Advice for Aircrew
	...perspectives: People Who Fly for a Living—​Health Myths & Realities
	Health Care Workers, Including Public Health Researchers & Medical Laboratorians
	Humanitarian Aid Workers
	United States Military Deployments
	Long-​Term Travelers & Expatriates
	Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel
	Visiting Friends & Relatives: VFR Travel
	Mass Gatherings
	Adventure Travel
	Sex & Travel
10 POPULAR ITINERARIES
	The Rationale for Popular Itineraries
	PART 1: AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST
	African Safaris
	Saudi Arabia: Hajj & Umrah Pilgrimages
	South Africa
	Tanzania & Zanzibar
	PART 2: THE AMERICAS & THE CARIBBEAN
	Brazil
	Dominican Republic
	Haiti
	Mexico
	Peru
	PART 3: ASIA
	Burma (Myanmar)
	China
	India
	Nepal
	Thailand
11 POSTTRAVEL EVALUATION
	General Approach to the Returned Traveler
	Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases
	...perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers
	Fever in the Returned Traveler
	Antimicrobial Resistance
	Respiratory Infections
	Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
	Dermatologic Conditions
	...perspectives: Delusional Parasitosis
	Sexually Transmitted Infections
	Newly Arrived Immigrants, Refugees & Other Migrants
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