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.
Annelies Wilder-Smith, Eli Schwartz, Marc Shaw
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