Travel vaccines: information for health care workers
Travel and volume of passengers and goods carried continue to expand in reach as more sophisticated air, sea and land transport networks develop. People are travelling for business and leisure, taking with them pathogens and their vectors bringing about diseases such as the global influenza pandemic...
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| author | Natalie Schellack N Van der Sandt T Modau T Poplar J C Meyer |
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| description | Travel and volume of passengers and goods carried continue to expand in reach as more sophisticated air, sea and land transport networks develop. People are travelling for business and leisure, taking with them pathogens and their vectors bringing about diseases such as the global influenza pandemics. This review briefly examines some of the important vaccine preventable diseases related to travel. We then outline diseases known to Africa and other similar parts of the world, and potential approaches for preventing these conditions. The paper provides practical advice for health care workers when consulting with the international traveler and hence may strengthen the battle against vaccine preventable diseases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-353098615cdf47c3985e6e2db57af59f2022-12-22T03:13:12ZengAOSISSouth African Family Practice2078-61902078-62042017-05-01592202910.4102/safp.v59i2.45943686Travel vaccines: information for health care workersNatalie Schellack0N Van der Sandt1T Modau2T Poplar3J C Meyer4Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences UniversitySefako Makgatho Health Sciences UniversitySefako Makgatho Health Sciences UniversitySanofi PasteurSefako Makgatho Health Sciences UniversityTravel and volume of passengers and goods carried continue to expand in reach as more sophisticated air, sea and land transport networks develop. People are travelling for business and leisure, taking with them pathogens and their vectors bringing about diseases such as the global influenza pandemics. This review briefly examines some of the important vaccine preventable diseases related to travel. We then outline diseases known to Africa and other similar parts of the world, and potential approaches for preventing these conditions. The paper provides practical advice for health care workers when consulting with the international traveler and hence may strengthen the battle against vaccine preventable diseases.https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/4594travel vaccinesyellow feverdenguepoliomeningococcal meningitis |
| spellingShingle | Natalie Schellack N Van der Sandt T Modau T Poplar J C Meyer Travel vaccines: information for health care workers South African Family Practice travel vaccines yellow fever dengue polio meningococcal meningitis |
| title | Travel vaccines: information for health care workers |
| title_full | Travel vaccines: information for health care workers |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Travel vaccines: information for health care workers |
| title_short | Travel vaccines: information for health care workers |
| title_sort | travel vaccines information for health care workers |
| topic | travel vaccines yellow fever dengue polio meningococcal meningitis |
| url | https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/4594 |
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