Travel Medicine Book

Introduction;

The Development of Travel Medicine as a new discipline; History of the International Society of Travel Medicine;

Education in Travel Medicine
Education in Travel Medicine; The Gorgas course: Learning travel medicine while travelling; The Ten Commandments for Healthy Tropical Travel

History of the Evolution of Travel Vaccines
Routine National Vaccines; Recommended Travel Vaccines: From "Travel Vaccines" to universal vaccination: the hepatitis A story; Required Travellers Vaccinations: Yellow Fever - The Disease and the Vaccine; Remote Travel Vaccines: The undulating fortunes of typhoid vaccines; ‘Rarer’ Travellers Vaccines: Rabies vaccines; Malarial drugs down through the ages: from Cinchona to Qinghaosu

Infections of Adventure and Leisure (A. Wilder-Smith);

Personal Tales Tragedy on a cruise ship; Confessions of A ‘Reality TV’ Doc; Tales from the mountains; Tomb Raider's Crew Doctor; The Woman Atop the Crocodile: Newton’s Law in Africa; A Travel medicine practitioner during SARS outbreak in Singapore;

Tales behind the research in travel medicine
The Borneo Eco-Challenge: GeoSentinel & Rapid Global Sharing of Disease Outbreak Information; Understanding Malaria Prophylaxis: Lessons learnt on the Omo River, Ethiopia; Travellers’ diarrhoea: Tales from Mexico; The story of the Himalaya clinic, Nepal; Studying cyclospora in Nepal; Meningococcal disease and the Hajj pilgrimage; Too high too fast: experiences at high altitude; The Pleasures and Perils of Traveling with Young Children (K. Neumann); Mongolian Expedition; Evacuation of travelers: Personal Anecdotes, Pearls and Conclusions;

Travelling for a Cause
Globalization, Migration and Health: Disease and Disparity in the Global Village; Stories of undocumented migrants to the US; Between crossing boundaries and respecting norms: The story of Women Labor-Migrants in Israel; Humanitarian Care in Haiti and Rwanda; Muslim Pilgrimage; The pilgrimages of Christianity; Hindu pilgrims; Buddhist Pilgrims;

When diseases travel
Cholera-a travel history of the first modern pandemic; The role of armies in spreading epidemics: vector and victim; The Spread of Disease in the 20th Century & Lessons for the 21st Century; International health regulations made easy for travel medicine practitioners;

The Future- Aerospace visit.