Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science

Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of 'travel medicine' as a separate discipline. This book describes the evolution of travel medicine, travel vaccines, malaria prophylaxis and infections of adventure and leisure.
This book is unique and different to the standard textbooks on travel medicine. It provides rare insights into many of the behind-the-scenes in travel medicine, personal stories of failures and successes of travel medicine practitioners, the 'real life' tales that unravel the science behind travel medicine. We believe that the best lessons are learned from personal stories.
Not every travel is fun. Some travel is for a cause, be it religious or humanitarian, or be it to escape certain political systems. We have added stories on the tragedies of so-called 'undocumented refugees', and stories written by colleagues who were involved in humanitarian care. Pilgrimages attract large number of 'travelers' and yet we know so little about these pilgrimages. Chapters on the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian pilgrimages aim to correct this.
Diseases also travel. The spread of global diseases and pandemics is fascinating. This book provides an overview of the pandemics, in particular that of cholera, yellow fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza. Globalization, migration and health lead to a history of disease and disparity in the global village - our world. And what about the revised International Health Regulations- what do we need to know about them in the context of travel medicine?
In the next millennium, our world will have inherited further global movement. It may even include travel to aerospace. The 'Epilogue' awakes some of our old dreams - the last frontier, space travel...
Annelies Wilder-Smith has lived in China, Papua New Guinea, Nepal, New Zealand, and Switzerland. She is currently based in Singapore from where she continues to travel extensively throughout Asia. She is the Head of the Travellers Health ' Vaccination Centre in Singapore, one of the largest travel clinics in Asia. She was in a unique position to do research on W135 meningococcal disease in Hajj pilgrims during the outbreak. She 'lived through' the SARS epidemic in Singapore.
Eli Schwartz is the Director of the Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Eli is a 'real' tropical medicine specialist. He obtained all his experience in the field, including Nepal, Tibet, and numerous adventure travels to Africa where he prefers to do his studies on the sides of the Omo River.
Marc Shaw is a passionate traveler, doctor, actor and observer of fine humor. His favorite pastime is to be an expedition doctor. This has taken him to exotic places such as Namibia, Mongolia, Pitcairn Islands, and to the Amazon. He is the Director of WORLDWIDE Travellers' Health Centres in New Zealand.

Annelies Wilder-Smith, Eli Schwartz, Marc Shaw

Introduction, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Eli Schwartz, Marc Shaw; History of Travel Medicine; Chapter 1 History of the Development of Travel Medicine as a New Discipline, Gabriela Buck, Robert Steffen; Education in Travel Medicine; Chapter 2 Education in Travel Medicine, Phyllis Kozarsky; Chapter 3 The Gorgas Course, David O. Freedman; Chapter 4 The Ten Commandments for Healthy Tropical Travel, Jay S. Keystone; Evolution of Travel Vaccines; Chapter 5 Routine Vaccinations and Travel, Peter A. Leggat; Chapter 6 Recommended Travel Vaccines, Francis E. Andre; Chapter 7 Required Travel Vaccinations, Chen Collins; Chapter 8 Remote Travel Vaccines, Eyal Meltzer, Eli Schwartz; Chapter 9 Dodging the Bullet, Paul M. Arguin, Nicole F. Oechslin; Malaria Drugs and Infections of Adventure; Chapter 10 Barking up the Right Trees? Malaria Drugs from Cinchona to Qing Hao, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor; Chapter 11 Infections of Adventure and Leisure, Annelies Wilder-Smith; Personal Tales; Chapter 12 Final Log, Marc Shaw; Chapter 13 Tales from the Mountains, Ted Lankester; Chapter 14 Confessions of a 'Reality TV' Doc, Marc Shaw; Chapter 15 Tomb Raider's Crew Doctor, Laragh Gollogly; Chapter 16 The Woman Atop the Crocodile, Stephen Toovey; Tales Behind the Research in Travel Medicine; Chapter 17 The Borneo Eco-Challenge, David O. Freedman; Chapter 18 Understanding Malaria Prophylaxis, Eli Schwartz; Chapter 19 Travelers' Diarrhea, Charles D. Ericsson; Chapter 20 The History of the CIWEC Clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal, Prativa Pandey, David R. Shlim; Chapter 21 History of Cyclospora at the CIWEC Clinic, Nepal, David R. Shlim; Chapter 22 Meningococcal Disease and the Hajj Pilgrimage, Annelies Wilder-Smith; Chapter 23 Too High Too Fast, Ken Zafren; Chapter 24 The Pleasures and Perils of Traveling with Young Children, Karl Neumann; Chapter 25 Mongolian Expedition, Marc Shaw; Chapter 26 Evacuation of Travelers, Yoel Donchin, Steven Marc Friedman; Traveling for a Cause; Chapter 27 Globalization, Migration and Health, Brian Gushulak; Chapter 28 Stories of Undocumented Migrants to the USA, Nancy Piper Jenks; Chapter 29 Between Crossing Boundaries and Respecting Norms, Galia Sabar; Chapter 30 Humanitarian Care in Haiti and Rwanda, Anne E. McCarthy; Chapter 31 Muslim Pilgrimage, Ziad A. Memish; Chapter 32 The Pilgrimages of Christianity, Michel J. Deprez; Chapter 33 Hindu Pilgrimages, Santanu Chatterjee; Chapter 34 Pilgrimages in the High Himalayas, Ken Zafren; When Diseases Travel; Chapter 35 Cholera, Eyal Meltzer, Eli Schwartz; Chapter 36 The Role of Armies in Spreading Epidemics, Eran Dolev; Chapter 37 The Spread of Disease in the 20th Century and Lessons for the 21st Century, Stephen M. Ostroff; Chapter 38 As Travel Medicine Practitioner during the SARS Outbreak in Singapore, Annelies Wilder-Smith; Chapter 39 What Does the Travel Medicine Practitioner Need to Know About the International Health Regulations?, Max Hardiman; Epilogue; Chapter 40 A Look into the Future, Larry DeLucas;