BACKGROUND A main cause of hepatitis A and B infections in European countries is travel to endemic countries. Most research on hepatitis vaccination among travellers from Europe has been conducted in airports or travel clinics, samples which potentially overrepresented frequent travellers. METHODS 2102 respondents across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK completed an internet-based questi...

OBJECTIVE By using a large, multicenter database, we investigated the characteristics and morbidities of 1591 children returning from 218 global destinations and presenting for care in 19 countries. METHODS Data reported to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network between January 1997 and November 2007 were analyzed, to assess demographic features, travel characteristics, and clinical diagnoses o...

human voyage to the world of ultra sense is a matter of discourses which was widely discussed between nations and the various schools of philosophy, language and many people including leaders of religions and thoughts branches confessed doing such voyages and left some literary reports of their mystical and dreamy travel. the oldest and newest of these reports are shown in this paper and them b...

Travel journals from different historical periods contain valuable insights that could be analyzed from different aspects and through that we can understand other people’s points of view about us. Description of different cities in travel literature represents French travelers’ views about these cities besides informing us about the quality and quantity of those cities at the times. “Represen...

introduction: among the united arab emirates (uae) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. this is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. this concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travelling abroad so that ...

Interview with John Nye_4 New Institutional Economics: A State-of-the-Art Review for Economic Sociologists by Rinat Menyashev, Timur Natkhov, Leonid Polishchuk, and Georgiy Syunyaev_12 “New Institutional Economics” versus “Economics of Conventions” by Olivier Favereau_22 Petering Out or Flaming Up? New Institutional Economics in East-Central Europe by János Mátyas Kovács_28 Call for Papers_40 A...

There appears to be an increase in imported cases of visceral leishmaniasis in Northern Europe; many are children infected on holiday in the Mediterranean. Making the diagnosis in young children can be difficult especially when an adequate travel history is not obtained at presentation. Two infants with visceral leishmaniasis are presented who were initially felt to have alternative diagnoses a...

CLASSIFICATION The virus diseases of the central nervous system are of growing importance. Some are apparently increasing in incidence, others are newly recognized. Even in a country like Great Britain the more exotic types may be seen in these days when air travel has brought the remotest parts of the tropics within one or two days' travelling time of North-western Europe. They may be classifi...