Standards of medical care on adventure holidays raise concerns
...wice in the past year, she recalls treating fellow travellers with acute mountain sickness while on holiday - a common and potentially fatal condition if not treated correctly. In both cases the group leaders had exceeded the recommended rates of ascent, and the people concerned were unaware of the severity of ...Are hepatitis A vaccine boosters unnecessary?
...me less-developed regions of the world and western travellers to those regions. Two or three doses of vaccine provide long-term immunity against the infection. However, there is no worldwide consensus on how long protection will last or whether there is a need for HAV booster vaccinations. In most countries, bo...First reported cases of North Asian tick typhus among North Americans
...urism, and adventure attract increasing numbers of travellers to Mongolia, China, and other north Asian republics every year. Travellers and their physicians should suspect this arthropod-borne illness in patients who return from endemic regions with a characteristic syndrome, even in the absence of a recognise...Study suggests 1% risk of DVT for long-distance air travellers
...ound in a study of over 800 frequent long-haul air travellers identified as being at low to moderate risk-many o...mptomatic venous thromboembolism for long-haul air travellers is not known; a previous study (Lancet 2001; 357: 1485-89) suggested that symptomless DVT could occu...People wounded in tsunami at risk of undetected fungal infections
...lems. The authors believe that infections found in travellers who have returned from tsunami-affected regions ca...affected regions. She adds: "This case shows that travellers repatriated from affected areas could be good predictors of infections in survivors because they may...Aircraft cabin ventilation influences the transmission of diseases in-flight
...o reduce the risk of disease transmission, and air travellers should make it part of their normal travel routine. Dr Gendreau comments: "Because of the increasing ease and affordability of air travel and mobility of people, airborne, food-borne, vector-borne infectious diseases transmitted during commercial ai...