BACKGROUND Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, events that are expected to attract hundreds of thousands of international travelers. Travelers to Brazil will encounter locally endemic infections as well as mass event-specific risks. METHODS We describe 1586 ill returned travelers who had visited Brazil and were seen at a GeoSentinel Clinic from ...

nonspecific activity-related arm pain is characterized by an absence of objective physical findings and symptoms that do not correspond with objective pathophysiology. arm pain without strict diagnosis is often related to activity, work-related activity in particular, and is often seen in patients with physically demanding work. psychological factors such as catastrophic thinking, symptoms of d...

Perhaps for the first time, researchers have attempted to formally measure the risk perceptions of travelers compared with expert providers regarding health risks using a psychometric measuring instrument.1 However in both the original article and the associated editorial,2 there was no discussion or referencing of the vast body of knowledge from the field of risk perception within the greater ...

The majority of health problems encountered in association with travel stem from preexisting, perhaps latent, illness in the individual which may be exacerbated by the rigours and hazards of travel. It is essential that the advising physician understands the hazards that are likely to be encountered during travel in order that they may develop informed decisions regarding fitness for travel and...

We examined whether the average water residence time, the time it takes water to travel from the treatment plant to the user, for a zip code was related to the proportion of emergency department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal (GI) illness among residents of that zip code. Individual-level ED data were collected from all hospitals located in the five-county metro Atlanta area from 1993 to 2004...

Michel de Montaigne, the great French humanist and inventor of the personal essay, suffered from frequent and severe renal colic. He wrote about his illness in his travel journal and in his last and greatest essay, "Of Experience." In his illness narratives, Montaigne integrated disease and suffering into his life and art. He humanized rather than conquered his disease. A mature humanism replac...

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging disease with a rapid increase in cases and deaths since its first discovery in December 2019, in Wuhan, China. Limited data on COVID-19 during pregnancy are available; however, information on diseases associated with other highly pathogenic coronaviruses (i.e., severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)...

Introduction: High altitude destinations are popular among international travelers. Travel medicine practitioners should be familiar with altitude physiology and high altitude illness recognition, prophylaxis, and management. We performed the first bibliometric analysis of high altitude medicine research. Methods: All articles published in a specialist hi...

prevention of infectious diseases during travel but also with the personal safety of travelers and the avoidance of environmental risks. The major content areas of travel medicine include the global epidemiology of the health risks to the traveler, vaccinology, prevention of disease and pretravel counseling. Many of these risks can be minimized by precautions taken before, during and after trav...