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Introduction | 7 | |
Chapter 1 | Before you go | |
Health planning | 9 | |
When to go | 15 | |
Vaccinations | 23 | |
The essential medical kit | 31 | |
Medical insurance | 34 | |
Chapter 2 | Day-to-day health | |
General issues | 39 | |
Water purification | 45 | |
Food on the move | 53 | |
Travel stress | 60 | |
Culture shock | 64 | |
Jet lag | 70 | |
Flying in comfort | 74 | |
Coming home | 77 | |
Chapter 3 | Common illnesses | |
Travellers' diseases | 82 | |
Malaria | 82 | |
If you can't stand the heat | 91 | |
Diarrhoeal illness | 94 | |
Sex abroad | 97 | |
High altitude, cold feet? | 100 | |
Rabies | 105 | |
Bilharzia (schistosomiasis) | 109 | |
Chapter 4 | Extreme situations | |
Creatures that bite | 113 | |
Injections and blood transfusions | 118 | |
Surviving the jungle | 120 | |
Surviving the desert | 124 | |
Surviving the cold | 129 | |
Surviving the sea | 139 | |
Chapter 5 | Disease checklist | |
Amoebiasis | 143 | |
Cholera | 143 | |
Cutaneous larva migrans | 143 | |
Dengue fever | 144 | |
Diphtheria | 144 | |
Encephalitis (Viral) | 145 | |
Encephalitis (Japanese) | 145 | |
Encephalitis (St Louis) | 146 | |
Encephalitis (Tick-borne) | 146 | |
Filariasis (Bancroftian) | 146 | |
Giardiasis | 147 | |
Hepatitis | 147 | |
Jiggers | 147 | |
Leishmaniasis | 148 | |
Leptospirosis | 148 | |
Lyme disease | 149 | |
Malaria | 149 | |
Meningitis | 149 | |
Myiasis | 149 | |
Plague | 150 | |
Polio | 150 | |
Rabies | 151 | |
Tetanus | 151 | |
Trypanosomiasis | 151 | |
Tuberculosis | 152 | |
Typhoid | 152 | |
Typhus | 153 | |
Typhus (Tick and Scrub) | 153 | |
Viral haemorrhagic fevers | 153 | |
Worms | 154 | |
Yellow fever | 154 | |
Chapter 6 | Directory | |
Country-by-country health profiles | 156 | |
Quality of healthcare worldwide | 183 | |
Worldwide vaccinations guide | 184 | |
Vaccination and information centres | 190 | |
British Airways travel clinics | 193 | |
Medical kit suppliers | 195 | |
Medical kit checklist | 196 | |
Useful reading | 201 | |
HIV/AIDS information | 202 | |
Alternative medicine sources | 203 | |
The relative risks | 204 | |
Notes on contributors | 205 | |
WEXAS membership offer | 207 |
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