International travel and health : Vaccination requirements and health advice : Situation as on 1 January 1993

Abstract

This booklet is addressed to national health administrations and to the practising physicians, tourists agencies, shipping companies, airline operators, and other bodies who are called upon to give health advice to travellers. In addition to summarizing the vaccination requirements of individual countries, the booklet indicates the main areas where malaria transmission occurs and where Plasmodium falciparum is resistant to drugs. Other chapters cover certain hazards to which the traveller may be exposed and indicate the areas in which these hazards are most likely to occur. The booklet also recommends a number of precautions that the wise traveller should take when visiting unfamiliar places