Confronting the New Challenge in Travel Medicine: SARS

Confronting the new challenge in travel medicine: SARS.

J Travel Med 2003; 10:257–258. SARS, travel and travel medicine are intricately interlinked. It was a traveler who became the vector that turned a newly emergent local virus into a global outbreak.An American businessman traveling from China via Hong Kong exported the disease to Vietnam on 23 February 2003. The resulting nosocomial outbreak of severe atypical pneumonia in a Vietnamese hospital ...

Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Citation Analysis of the Most Influential Publications in Travel Medicine

Introduction: Citation analysis reflects the extent to which published work has been recognized in the scientific community. The purpose of this study was to characterize the most cited publications in travel medicine.Methods: Travel medicine articles indexed on Scopus which had been published in the English language through 2016 were retrieved independen...

Confronting the Pedagogical Challenge of Cyber Safety

Cyber violence and the antidote of cyber safety are fast becoming a global concern for governments, educational authorities, teachers, parents and children alike. Despite substantial funding for information dissemination on preventative strategies and the development of electronic responses to hinder perpetrators, the phenomenon of cyber violence has received little attention in the educational...

Travel Medicine: A Systematic Review

Introduction: Travel medicine is devoted to the health of travelers who visit foreign countries. It is an interdisciplinary specialty concerned not only with prevention of infectious diseases during travel but also with the personal safety of travelers and the avoidance of environmental risks. Methods: This review examines 15 appropriate papers by PRISMA ...