BACKGROUND Rates of travel-related diarrhoea vary from 8% to 50% depending on the country visited. Travellers' diarrhoea has social, health and economic costs. The impact of these may be reduced by relevant pre-travel advice. Little is known of the effect of pre-travel advice on the incidence of diarrhoea among travellers abroad. AIM To determine the 'true' attack rate of travellers' diarrhoe...

Spirituality and journeying have long informed one another, both in people’s life experiences and literary endeavours. Spiritualities within the Christian tradition and their relationship to travel have been most commonly explored with reference to the pilgrims of the middle ages and the missionary men and women of more recent centuries. The people by whom Christianity was introduced to Austral...

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BACKGROUND Among human Salmonella Enteritidis infections, phage type 4 has been the dominant phage type in most countries in Western Europe during the last years. This is reflected in Salmonella infections among Swedish travellers returning from abroad. However, there are differences in phage type distribution between the countries, and this has also changed over time. METHODS We used data fr...

BACKGROUND Influenza viruses are among the major causes of serious human respiratory tract infection worldwide. In line with the high disease burden attributable to influenza, these viruses play an important, but often neglected, role in travel medicine. Guidelines and recommendations regarding prevention and management of influenza in travellers are scarce. Of special interest for travel medic...

Even brief visits abroad may bring travellers into contact with pathogens against which they have no immunity. Though returning home apparently well, the travellers may be incubating an exotic illness with which they then present to their local doctor. We report a recent outbreak of acute Schistosoma mansoni infection that occurred in this way.

OBJECTIVES This study investigated sources of self reported psychological stress among international business travellers at the World Bank, following up on a previous study showing that travellers submitted more insurance claims for psychological disorders. Hypotheses were that work, personal, family, and health concerns, as well as time zone travel, contribute to travel stress. METHODS A tra...

INTRODUCTION Dengue continues to be a global public health concern. In Japan, although dengue cases are currently seen only among travellers returning from endemic areas, the number of reported cases is rising according to the national case-based surveillance system. We evaluated the characteristics of dengue cases imported into Japan and the relationship between the incidence of infection and ...

Dengue has been designated a major international public health problem by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is endemic in most tropical and sub-tropical countries, which are also popular tourist destinations. Travellers are not only at significant risk of acquiring dengue but they also contribute to its spread to non-endemic regions. Furthermore, they may serve as sentinels to alert the ...

This paper reports on research that introduced the concept of Integrated Multimodal Traveller Information to mixed mode and mixed socio-demographic groups of travellers. Travellers were shown information about travel by car, coach and train for a journey with which they were familiar. Different levels of information were shown at different times, ranging from simple financial cost and journey d...