Travellers and influenza: risks and prevention

Travellers and influenza: risks and prevention

BACKGROUND Influenza viruses are among the major causes of serious human respiratory tract infection worldwide. In line with the high disease burden attributable to influenza, these viruses play an important, but often neglected, role in travel medicine. Guidelines and recommendations regarding prevention and management of influenza in travellers are scarce. Of special interest for travel medic...

seasonal influenza and prevention

Prevention of influenza among travellers attending at a UK travel clinic: beliefs and perceptions. A cross‐sectional study

BACKGROUND Travellers' compliance with measures to prevent influenza through the use of antivirals and influenza vaccine remains very poor despite influenza being one of the commonest travel and vaccine-preventable diseases. A study was undertaken to assess travellers' beliefs, perceptions and intentions to take antivirals for the treatment and prevention of influenza during the H1N1 pandemic. ...

P 59: Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs as a Prevention of Alzheimer Disease: Risks and Benefits

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that accounts for 60 to 80 percent of all dementia cases. The exact cause of Alzheimer`s disease is still unknown, but recent studies suggest neuro-inflammation as an important part of the pathogenesis of the disease. This brings in mind using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) as treatment or prevention of the disease. ...

Prevention and treatment of influenza.

Eleven years after the first appearance of the Asian (A2) family of human influenza A viruses, a new virus offspring differing antigenically from all previously known A2 relatives has appeared. The A2/Hong Kong/68 virus, which caused a large outbreak of influenza in Hong Kong in July, has since been found in sporadic cases or outbreaks in many areas, including Malaysia, the Philippines, India, ...