CDC Yellow Book 2020: Health Information for International Travel

by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Overview

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2020! "A beloved travel must-have for the intrepid wanderer." -Publishers Weekly "A truly excellent and comprehensive resource." -Journal of Hospital Infection The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad. This 2020 edition includes: · Country-specific risk guidelines for yellow fever and malaria, including expert recommendations and 26 detailed, country-level maps · Detailed maps showing distribution of travel-related illnesses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis, meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis · Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions, including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea · Expert guidance on food and drink precautions to avoid illness, plus water-disinfection techniques for travel to remote destinations · Specialized guidelines for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings · Advice on medical tourism, complementary and integrative health approaches, and counterfeit drugs · Updated guidance for pre-travel consultations · Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad, including guidance on different types of travel insurance · Health insights around 15 popular tourist destinations and itineraries · Recommendations for traveling with infants and children · Advising travelers with specific needs, including those with chronic medical conditions or weakened immune systems, health care workers, humanitarian aid workers, long-term travelers and expatriates, and last-minute travelers · Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees Long the most trusted book of its kind, the CDC Yellow Book is an essential resource in an ever-changing field -- and an ever-changing world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190928957
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/14/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	704
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

About the Editors in Chief: Gary W. Brunette, MD, MS, is Chief of the Travelers' Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD, is Senior Medical Officer and Clinical Team Lead of the Travelers' Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction Introduction to Travel Health & the CDC Yellow Book Travel Epidemiology Perspectives: WHY GUIDELINES DIFFER Air Travel Trends 2 Preparing International Travelers The Pretravel Consultation Perspectives: TRAVELERS' PERCEPTION OF RISK Last-Minute Travelers Complementary & Integrative Health Approaches Prioritizing Care for the Resource-Limited Traveler Telemedicine Perspectives: LEGAL ISSUES FOR CLINICIANS Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis: General Recommendations Interactions among Travel Vaccines & Drugs Yellow Fever & Malaria Information, by Country Food & Water Precautions Water Disinfection Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins Travelers' Diarrhea Perspectives: ANTIBIOTICS IN TRAVELERS' DIARRHEA-BALANCING THE RISKS & BENEFITS 3 Environmental Hazards & Other Noninfectious Health Risks Injury & Trauma Mental Health Safety & Security Overseas Mosquitoes, Ticks & Other Arthropods Sun Exposure Extremes of Temperature Air Quality & Ionizing Radiation Animal Bites & Stings (Zoonotic Exposures) Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-Related Injuries Perspectives: ZOONOSES: THE ONE HEALTH APPROACH High-Altitude Travel & Altitude Illness 4 Travel-Related Infectious Diseases Amebiasis Angiostrongyliasis, Neurologic Anthrax B virus Bartonella Infections Brucellosis Campylobacteriosis Chikungunya Cholera Coccidioidomycosis Cryptosporidiosis Cutaneous Larva Migrans Cyclosporiasis Cysticercosis Dengue Diphtheria Echinococcosis Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic Fascioliasis Filariasis, Lymphatic Flukes, Lung Giardiasis Hand, Foot& Mouth Disease Helicobacter pylori Helminths, Soil-Transmitted Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis E Histoplasmosis HIV Infection Influenza Japanese Encephalitis Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever) Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Visceral Leptospirosis Lyme Disease Malaria Measles (Rubeola) Melioidosis Meningococcal Disease Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Mumps Norovirus Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Pertussis Pinworm (Enterobiasis, Oxyuriasis, Threadworm) Plague (Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic) Pneumococcal Disease Poliomyelitis Q Fever Rabies Perspectives: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO RABIES IMMUNIZATION Rickettsial (Spotted & Typhus Fevers) & Related Infections, including Anaplasmosis & Ehrlichiosis Rubella Salmonellosis (Nontyphoidal) Sarcocystosis Scabies Schistosomiasis Shigellosis Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections Strongyloidiasis Taeniasis Tetanus Tickborne Encephalitis Toxoplasmosis Trypanosomiasis, African (Sleeping Sickness) Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas Disease) Tuberculosis Perspectives: SCREENING TRAVELERS FOR TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever Varicella (Chickenpox) Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Yellow Fever Yersiniosis Zika Virus 5 Travelers with Additional Considerations Immunocompromised Travelers Travelers with Disabilities Travelers with Chronic Illnesses 6 Health Care Abroad Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation Insurance Perspectives: PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY & FALSIFIED DRUGS Travel Health Kits 7 Family Travel Pregnant Travelers Travel & Breastfeeding Traveling Safely with Infants & Children Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children International Adoption 8 Travel by Air, Land & Sea Air Travel Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism Jet Lag Road & Traffic Safety Cruise Ship Travel Motion Sickness 9 Work & Other Reasons for Travel Business Travel Aircrews Health Care Workers, including Public Health Researchers & Medical Laboratorians Humanitarian Aid Workers US Military Deployments Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel Visiting Friends & Relatives: VFR Travel Mass Gatherings Adventure Travel Sex & Travel 10 Select Destinations Rationale for Select Destinations Africa & the Middle East East Africa: Safaris Saudi Arabia: Hajj/Umrah Pilgrimage South Africa Tanzania: Kilimanjaro The Americas & the Caribbean Brazil Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Mexico Peru: Cusco, Machu Picchu & Other Regions Asia Burma (Myanmar) China India Nepal Thailand 11 Posttravel Evaluation General Approach to the Returned Traveler Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers Posttravel Evaluation: Fever Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases Sexually Transmitted Infections Skin & Soft Tissue Infections Respiratory Infections Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers Newly Arrived Immigrants & Refugees 12 Appendices Appendix A: Promoting Quality in the Practice of Travel Medicine Appendix B: Travel Vaccine Summary Table Appendix C: Death during Travel Appendix D: Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health Interventions Appendix E: Taking Animals & Animal Products across International Borders Index Photography Credits

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Manasa Velagapudi, MBBS (Creighton University Medical Center)
Description: This comprehensive book describes the key concepts of travel health and the risks of infectious diseases associated with travel.
Purpose: The aim is to provide a clear, up-to-date, complete understanding of destination-specific risks of infectious diseases.
Audience: This book would be of interest to, and a great resource for, a broad audience, including infectious diseases physicians, internists, travel health providers residents, public health experts, nurses, and others involved in caring for travelers.
Features: The initial chapters describe the concepts of pretravel consultation and discuss in detail both common and rare travel-related infectious diseases. The remainder of the book focuses mainly on the risks of travel-related infections in immunocompromised hosts, family travel, and healthcare abroad, as well as popular itineraries. It also discusses the art of counselling patients about specific travel-related risks and describes all the commonly used travel vaccines and prophylactic antibiotics to prevent those diseases. Color-coded maps clearly illustrate the risk of infectious disease in each part of a given country. Tables depict drug interactions and vaccine considerations in immunocompromised hosts. There is also a chapter on environmental hazards, noninfectious diseases risks, and healthcare abroad.
Assessment: This is a very well-written book that provides a great explanation of the core principles of travel medicine. This edition includes updated recommendations on some of the vaccines, such as the yellow fever vaccine. An understanding of the concepts in this book serves the needs of clinicians who aim to conquer the outbreaks of infectious diseases associated with travel.

Doody's Review Service

"This is a very well-written book that provides a great explanation of the core principles of travel medicine. This edition includes updated recommendations on some of the vaccines, such as the yellow fever vaccine. An understanding of the concepts in this book serves the needs of clinicians who aim to conquer the outbreaks of infectious diseases associated with travel. (Weighted Numerical Score: 100 - 5 Stars!)" — Manasa Velagapudi, Doodys

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