CDC Yellow Book 2024: Health Information for International Travel

by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Overview

For over half a century, the CDC Yellow Book has been a trusted resource, providing international travelers and clinicians with expert guidance for safe and healthy travel abroad. Along with disease-specific prevention and treatment recommendations, this comprehensive reference text provides readers with the background and context needed to understand and address health threats associated with all types of international travel. FEATURED IN THIS EDITION: · Precautions for international travelers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including links to updated information on related CDC and US government websites · Updates on practicing travel medicine in a virtual environment · New standalone vaccine tables for bacterial and viral diseases with links to the relevant Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and US FDA websites · Safe international travel with pets and service animals · Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad including guidance on different types of travel insurance · Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea · Detailed maps showing the distribution of travel-associated infections and diseases, including dengue and meningococcal meningitis · Country-specific mosquito avoidance, yellow fever vaccine, and malaria prevention recommendations · Food and drink precautions, plus updated water-disinfection techniques · Expanded content on safe international travel for specific groups including: LGBTQ+ individuals, highly allergic travelers, travelers with substance use issues, and medical tourists · Specialized recommendations for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings · Health insights for 14 popular destinations and itineraries in Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean, and Asia · Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197570968
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/21/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	40 MB
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About the Author

About the Editor in Chief: Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD, served as senior medical officer in the Travelers' Health Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2017 to 2023. About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a United States federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, by topic CDC Contributors External Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Dedication 1 Introduction Disease Patterns in Travelers ...perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ Maps & Travel Medicine Improving the Quality of Travel Medicine through Education & Training 2 Preparing International Travelers The Pretravel Consultation ...perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis-General Principles Interactions Between Travel Vaccines & Drugs Yellow Fever Vaccine & Malaria Prevention Information, by Country Travelers' Diarrhea ...perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers' Diarrhea-Balancing Benefit & Risk Food & Water Precautions Water Disinfection Travel Health Kits Last-Minute Travelers Mental Health LGBTQ+ Travelers Complementary & Integrative Health Approaches to Travel Wellness Prioritizing Care for Resource-Limited Travelers Telemedicine ...perspectives: Risk Management Issues in Travel Medicine 3 Travelers with Additional Considerations Immunocompromised Travelers Travelers with Disabilities Travelers with Chronic Illnesses Highly Allergic Travelers Substance Use & Substance Use Disorders 4 Environmental Hazards & Risks Sun Exposure Extremes of Temperature Air Quality & Ionizing Radiation Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-Related Injuries High Elevation Travel & Altitude Illness Mosquitoes, Ticks & Other Arthropods Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches & Other Hazards Zoonoses-The One Health Approach Bringing Animals & Animal Products into the United States Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins Safety & Security Overseas Injury & Trauma Death During Travel 5 Travel-Associated Infections & Diseases BACTERIAL Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Bacterial Anthrax Bartonella Infections Brucellosis Campylobacteriosis Cholera Diphtheria Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic Helicobacter pylori Legionnaires' Disease & Pontiac Fever Leptospirosis Lyme Disease Melioidosis Meningococcal Disease Pertussis / Whooping Cough Plague Pneumococcal Disease Q Fever Rickettsial Diseases Salmonellosis, Nontyphoidal Shigellosis Tetanus Tuberculosis ...perspectives: Testing Travelers for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever Yersiniosis VIRAL Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Viral B Virus Chikungunya COVID-19 Dengue Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease Henipavirus Infections Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis E Human Immunodeficiency Virus / HIV Influenza Japanese Encephalitis Middle East Respiratory Syndrome / MERS Mumps Norovirus Poliomyelitis Rabies ...perspectives: Rabies Immunization Rubella Rubeola / Measles Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections Tick-Borne Encephalitis Varicella / Chickenpox Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Yellow Fever Zika PARASITIC Amebiasis Angiostrongyliasis Cryptosporidiosis Cutaneous Larva Migrans Cyclosporiasis Cysticercosis Echinococcosis Enterobiasis / Pinworm Filariasis, Lymphatic Flukes, Liver Flukes, Lung Giardiasis Helminths, Soil-Transmitted Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Visceral Malaria Onchocerciasis / River Blindness Sarcocystosis Scabies Schistosomiasis Strongyloidiasis Taeniasis Toxoplasmosis Trypanosomiasis, African Trypanosomiasis, American / Chagas Disease FUNGAL Coccidioidomycosis / Valley Fever Histoplasmosis 6 Health Care Abroad Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation Insurance Obtaining Health Care Abroad ...perspectives: Avoiding Poorly Regulated Medicines & Medical Products during Travel Medical Tourism 7 Family Travel Pregnant Travelers Travel & Breastfeeding Traveling Safely with Infants & Children Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children International Adoption Traveling with Pets & Service Animals 8 Travel by Air, Land & Sea Air Travel ...perspectives: Responding to Medical Emergencies when Flying Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism Jet Lag Road & Traffic Safety Cruise Ship Travel Motion Sickness Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health Interventions 9 Travel for Work & Other Reasons The International Business Traveler Advice for Aircrew ...perspectives: People Who Fly for a Living-Health Myths & Realities Health Care Workers, Including Public Health Researchers & Medical Laboratorians Humanitarian Aid Workers United States Military Deployments Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel Visiting Friends & Relatives: VFR Travel Mass Gatherings Adventure Travel Sex & Travel 10 Popular Itineraries The Rationale for Popular Itineraries AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST African Safaris Saudi Arabia: Hajj & Umrah Pilgrimages South Africa Tanzania & Zanzibar THE AMERICAS & THE CARIBBEAN Brazil Dominican Republic Haiti Mexico Peru ASIA Burma (Myanmar) China India Nepal Thailand 11 Posttravel Evaluation General Approach to the Returned Traveler Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases ...perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers Fever in the Returned Traveler Antimicrobial Resistance Respiratory Infections Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers Dermatological Conditions ...perspectives: Delusional Parasitosis Sexually Transmitted Infections Newly Arrived Immigrants, Refugees & Other Migrants

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Kenneth Schaefle, MD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Description: This book is a desktop reference to support medical doctors or clinicians who provide travel-related medical advice. It is an update to the 2020 CDC Yellow Book. It emphasizes pre-travel advice and risk assessment and provides detailed advice on vaccinations and other preventive and precautionary measures for foreign travel.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to support medical clinicians in making appropriate and focused recommendations for maintaining and protecting health while traveling, and to provide a framework by which illness in returning travelers can be evaluated. This is a worthy objective, as there are very large numbers of people engaging in travel and the concerns and illnesses faced by travelers are beyond the scope of regular practice for many clinicians in the United States. The book meets these objectives absolutely, delivering an easy to read, well-organized treatment of a broad set of concerns.
Audience: The book is written for medical clinicians such as primary care and family medicine doctors, PAs, and NPs who are able to give medical advice regarding travel or evaluate returning travelers. It assumes the reader has previous medical training and aims to provide trained clinicians with context-specific information so that they can provide appropriate recommendations for safe travel. The book does meet the needs of the intended audience. It is written on a level that can be understood by RNs, NPs, PAs, or MDs. The book has hundreds of contributing authors, all with high academic credentials and extensive subject matter expertise in the field on which they write.
Features: The book's greatest strength is pre-travel planning. The information allows a traveler to be aware of the regional conditions of disease and parasite prevalence, road and safety risks, and even cultural issues that could impact the health of a traveler. It empowers a clinician to make an individualized informed risk assessment of a travel plan, and to prepare for that plan with appropriate vaccines and other precautions. The book describes risks and prevalence of diseases and provides highly specific vaccine information. It also provides excellent descriptions of symptoms of diseases, the time course of illnesses, and appropriate tests for identifying specific diseases. It is sensitive and specific to the needs of travelers and to the cultures and places that are common travel destinations. It also provides information on medical insurance for travel and navigating foreign health systems when illness occurs during travel. It has country-by-country prevalence maps for malaria and global incidence maps of other diseases common in the developing world such as yellow fever. It has dedicated chapters on all major illnesses found throughout the world. It has chapters on 14 popular travel destinations and has special topic sections for travelers with concerns such as pregnancy, pre-existing medical conditions, and LGBTQ+ travel. It has many tables throughout that provide a simplified view of key information, allowing for a quick scan or checklist-type review. It includes excellent website links and chapter-specific bibliographies. It is not a field guide to be taken on a trip for real-time management of urgent medical emergencies. The majority of the guidebook is devoted to prevention, risk assessment, and identification of diseases. However, it does not provide full treatment plans. For example, the type of treatment antibiotic may be named, without guidance on specific dosages, frequency, or duration of treatment. It is assumed clinicians have access to and will use additional medical information. In a few places, the book gives a significant amount of description to diseases that are well-known in the developed world, such as the flu, Lyme disease, and HIV. Most clinicians in the U.S. have sufficient knowledge of these illnesses and their detailed description in a travel medicine book is not a significant advantage.
Assessment: This is the gold-standard in the field of travel medicine due to its enormous scope, expertise, and ease of use. It is a very well-designed book; information is easy to locate and presented to a high standard of detail while remaining concise and easy to read. The book provides a very realistic and modern overview of travel patterns, including the most popular international destinations and the most prevalent international diseases, as well as modern-day realities like medical tourism. It also addresses specific issues of illness on ships and in airplanes, as well as careers that involve extensive travel including military and humanitarian aid work. This is the first edition since COVID, so the material on COVID represents an essential feature in this new edition.

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"This is the gold-standard in the field of travel medicine due to its enormous scope, expertise, and ease of use." — Kenneth Schaefle, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Doody's Book Review

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