Among travelers, rabies cases are rare, but animal bites are relatively common. To determine which travelers are at highest risk for rabies, we studied 2,697 travelers receiving care for animal-related exposures and requiring rabies postexposure prophylaxis at GeoSentinel clinics during 1997-2012. No specific demographic characteristics differentiated these travelers from other travelers seekin...

Objectives: The aim of the study was to understand more about pretravel preparations and itineraries of business and occupational travelers. Methods: De-identified data from 18 Global TravEpiNet clinics from January 2009 to December 2012 were analyzed. Results: Of 23,534 travelers, 61% were non-occupational and 39% occupational. Business travelers were more likely to be men, had short times to ...

The United States will increase its screening of passengers for signs of Ebola infection at five international airports, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and theDepartment of Homeland Security’s Customs andBorder Protection announced on Wednesday 8 October. The screening measures will begin by the end of this week at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport and then ...

BACKGROUND The nonhuman primate (NHP)-related injuries in rabies-enzootic countries is a public health problem of increasing importance. The aims of this work are to collect data concerning rabies transmission from NHPs to humans; to collate medical practices regarding rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) in different countries, and to provide an evidence base to support the decision to apply ...

The shortand long-term consequences associated with diarrhea in travelers highlight the importance of the effective management of this illness. The use of nonabsorbed, orally administered antibiotics has been proposed as an important strategy for overcoming limitations of currently available treatments for infectious diarrhea in travelers. Several nonabsorbed or poorly absorbed antibiotics have...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to understand more about pre-travel preparations and itineraries of business and occupational travelers. METHODS De-identified data from 18 Global TravEpiNet clinics from January 2009 to December 2012 were analyzed. RESULTS Of 23,534 travelers, 61% were non-occupational and 39% occupational. Business travelers were more likely to be men, had short times t...

Introduction: The number of international travelers is increasing, yet currently, there is no data on risk assessment and travelers’ characteristics from Qatar. To identify and minimize the risks associated with travel, a detailed knowledge of travelers’ characteristics is needed. Methods: This retrospective descriptive study was conducted in a travel cli...

We evaluated the epidemiologic factors of patients seeking treatment for travel-associated illness from January 2004 through May 2005 at the University Hospital of Zurich. When comparing persons whose purpose of travel was visiting friends and relatives (VFR travelers; n = 121) with tourists and other travelers (n = 217), VFR travelers showed a distinct infectious disease and risk spectrum. VFR...

Philosophical discussions about travel can easily turn into an analysis of the thinking and self-consciousness travelers. However, philosophy should not be distracted from locality with its materiality aspects. The essential feature is that it implies affective interaction terrain. understood as a special kind communication Therefore might taken empirical basis for understanding only research m...