The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
This inclusive work presents a comprehensive update on vaccines for the international traveller. In over 21 chapters, written by leading writers in travel medicine from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, vaccinology for travel is explained in accessibl
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The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
‘When going on a journey it is not just the strength of a man’s legs, but the provisions he prepares for the trip’ –Abbot Kaoze (Dr Congo, 1890)
Marc Shaw • Claire Wong Editors
The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
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Editors Marc Shaw Worldwise Travellers Health Centres Auckland New Zealand
Claire Wong Worldwise Travellers Health Centres Auckland New Zealand
ISBN 978-3-319-15921-8 ISBN 978-3-319-15922-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15922-5
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Preface
Over one billion overseas visits are made by travellers worldwide each year to a myriad of destinations and for a huge variety of reasons. Each traveller will face different dangers which require individualised risk assessment and appropriate preventative advice. As such, travellers’ health and medicine is an evolving, multifaceted specialty requiring travel health professionals to be knowledgeable and confident in advising travellers. A major focus of travel medicine is vaccines and a knowledge of vaccinology is essential. Health professionals providing travel health advice need to be able to access authoritative and current health information in order to make decisions about appropriate vaccines for travellers going abroad, often into quite remote regions. Decisions on vaccines to be administered are made on analysis of a traveller’s projected itinerary, and the ‘any number’ of vaccine-preventable diseases that the traveller may encounter. This book serves as a guide for travel health profe
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