International travel and health : Vaccination requirements and health advice : Situation as on 1 January 1994

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 travelers. 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 health hazards to which the traveler 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 traveler should take when visiting unfamiliar places