Handbook for Travellers in Norway

Mosquito repellents for travellers.

This is one of a series of occasional articles on therapeutics for common or serious conditions, covering new drugs and old drugs with important new indications or concerns. The series advisers are Robin Ferner, honorary professor of clinical pharmacology, University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Hospital, and Albert Ferro, professor of cardiovascular clinical pharmacology, King’s College L...

Malaria prophylaxis for travellers.

Viral encephalitis in travellers.

Viral infections are the commonest cause of encephalitis, and the purpose of this article is to inform UK clinicians of the presentation, diagnosis and management of viral encephalitis in travellers returning to the UK. The classical presentation is as a triad of fever, headache and altered mental state. There may be other findings either on examination or on imaging which, together with a trav...

Dengue infections in travellers

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 ...

Respiratory virus infections in travellers.

THIS subject is both too large and too small for a short paper. It is too large, in that every respiratory virus infection that man is heir to can afflict travellers of one sort or another. There seems to be no special proneness to such infections in those who travel in contrast to diarrhoeal infections. This is probably because the common viruses of respiratory tract disease are very widely an...