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• Title:Travellers' health : how to stay healthy abroad / devised and edited by Richard Dawood.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Dawood, Richard M.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.
  

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  • Call Number: QT250 .T739 2002
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Travel--Health aspects.
  Tropical medicine.
  
• Edition:4th ed.
  
• Description:xxxi, 730 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [679]-687) and index.
  
• ISBN:0192629476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction
  Staying healthy abroad: why and how / Richard Dawood
  Travellers' health: an overview / Daniel Reid and Jonathan H. Cossar
  2. Diseases spread mainly by food, drink, and poor hygiene
  Diarrhoea and intestinal infections / Ron Behrens and Michael Barer
  Cholera / Ron Behrens
  Parasites from infected food and drink / Richard Knight
  Poliomyelitis / Tom Solomon
  Viral hepatitis / Jane N. Zuckerman and Arie J. Zuckerman
  Poisons and contaminants in food / Elizabeth Driver
  3. Water
  Safe water / Hemda Garelick
  Water purification devices / Paul Goodyer and Andreas King
  Recreational water and beaches / Robin Philipp and Pamela Thorne
  Algal blooms / Robin Philipp
  4. Diseases of 'contact'
  Tuberculosis / Peter Davies
  Tetanus / C. Louise Thwaites
  Diphtheria / Delia B. Bethell
  Schistosomiasis (bilharzia) / S. Bertel Squire
  Meningococcal meningitis / Brian M. Greenwood
  Legionnaires' disease / Christopher Bartlett
  Worm infections from soil contact / Richard Knight
  Leprosy / Diana N. J. Lockwood
  Anthrax / Arnold F. Kaufmann
  Viral haemorrhagic fevers / Susan Fisher-Hoch
  5. Diseases spread by Insects
  Malaria / David A. Warrell
  Arboviruses (dengue, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever and others) / Tom Solomon
  Filarial infections / Richard Knight
  Lyme disease / David M. Wright
  Leishmaniasis / Robert N. Davidson
  Sleeping sickness / David Smith
  Chagas disease (South American trypanosomiasis) / C. J. Schofield
  Plague / Tom Solomon
  Typhus / George Cowan
  Maggot infestation (myiasis) / John Paul
  Fleas, lice, bugs, scabies, and other creatures / Ian F. Burgess
  Personal protection against insect pests / Christopher Curtis
  6. Animal bites; rabies; venomous bites and stings / David A. Warrell
  7. Air and sea travel
  Air travel / Richard Harding
  Jet lag / Richard Dawood
  Motion sickness / Alan Benson and Rollin Stott
  Cruise ship medicine / Alastair Smith
  8. Environmental and recreational hazards
  Accidents / Richard Fairhurst
  Personal security and safety / Nicholas Cameron
  Altitude illness / Buddha Basnyat
  Effects of climatic extremes / Chris Johnson
  Sun and the traveller / John Hawk
  Hay fever seasons world-wide / Jean Emberlin
  Yachting and sailing: 'nautical tourism / Nebojsa Nikolic
  Water and watersports / Simon Ridout and Jules Eden
  Skiing / Basil Helal and Ernst Philipp
  Landmines / Laura Bedford
  Psychotropic drugs / Martin Mitcheson and Roger Lewis
  9. Some common troubles
  Skin problems / Francisco Vega-Lopez
  Dental problems / Andrew Dawood and Gordon Seward
  Eye problems / Timothy ffytche
  Foot care / Paula Dudley
  Gynaecological problems / John Naponick and Ellen Poage
  Psychological disorders / Michael Phelan
  Fever / Geoffrey Pasvol
  10. Sex and contraception abroad
  Sexually transmitted diseases / John Naponick
  Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and its cause: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / D. Peter Drotman
  Contraception and travel / Elphis Christopher
  11. Travellers at higher risk
  Travel in pregnancy / John Naponick and Hebert A. Brant
  Children abroad / Tony Waterston
  Elderly travellers / Iain B. McIntosh
  diabetic traveller / Peter Watkins
  Travellers with HIV infection / Jonathan E. Kaplan, David L. Swerdlow, Mary E. Wilson and D. Peter Drotman
  disabled traveller / Agnes Fletcher
  Expedition health / Jean Sinclair
  12. Living and working abroad
  Becoming an expatriate / David Snashall
  Fitness for working abroad / Carol Dow
  13. Preparations for travel
  Immunization / Gil Lea
  Health insurance for international travel / Richard Fairhurst
  Medicines and medical kits / Richard Dawood and Larry Goodyer
  Blood transfusion and the traveller / Michael J. G. Thomas
  14. Postscript: Challenges for the future
  Disease eradication and the future / Richard Dawood
  Emerging infections and the international traveller / David L. Heymann
  App. 1. Vaccination requirements and recommendations
  App. 2. Malaria: risk areas for disease and drug resistance
  App. 3. Geographic distribution of infectious diseases
  App. 4. Can you drink the water?
  App. 5. Some hints on eating abroad under extreme conditions of bad hygiene
  App. 6. Medical kit check-list
  App. 7. Post-tropical screening Dr. Carol Dow
  App. 8. Directory: specialist centres, information sources, an web-directory
  App. 9. Software tools and databases
  App. 10. Hay fever seasons world-wide Professor Jean Emberlin.