Fascioliasis in Australian travellers to Bali

Australian doctors in Bali: the initial medical response to the Bali bombing.

Several Australian medical practitioners were holidaying in Bali at the time of the nightclub bombing on 12 October 2002. On learning of the disaster, they went to Sanglah Hospital to assist. With the very limited resources of the hospital, they helped in providing emergency treatment, stabilising patients, and preparing Australian patients for evacuation.

African tick typhus (Mediterranean spotted fever) in Australian travellers.

Rickettsia conorii causes an acute febrile illness with characteristic cutaneous manifestations variously known as African tick typhus, Kenyan tickbite fever, Mediterranean spotted fever, Fievre boutonneuse or Febre escaro-nodular. Although the organism is endemic only in the Mediterranean littoral, Africa and the Middle East through to India, the infection is acquired from time to time by trav...

The health and health preparation of long-term Australian travellers.

A growing number of Australians are travelling domestically for extended periods. This creates challenges in both continuity of health care and burdens on health services. This paper reports a cross-sectional survey aimed to explore the health needs and health planning of long-term travellers. In total, 316 respondents who had travelled for more than 3 months consecutively in the last year part...

Acute Fascioliasis in Roodbar

Surgical Travellers: Tapestry to Bayeux

The planning for surgery in war was revisited in 1937 when Ian Fraser was elected a member of the Surgical Travellers. At their 1938 Surgical Travellers meeting in Vienna, Ian and Eleanor Fraser were evicted from their hotel room by the Nazis. The 1939 meeting in Belfast discussed the organization of surgery and the conduct of Emergency Medical Service Hospitals in the United Kingdom; the vast ...