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Travel Disease & Vaccines
CHIKUNGUNYA
Chikungunya means to become controlled and describes the stooped appearance of sufferers with severe joint pain.
CHOLERA
Recovery from the illness can take people weeks or months, leading to time absent from work, school, or daily life.
DENGUE FEVER
An estimated 500,000 people with severe dengue hospitalization each year.
DIPHTHERIA
An estimated 5-10% of people who get the infection will die from complications.
HEPATITIS A
Recovery from the illness can take people weeks or months, leading to time absent from work, school, or daily life.
HEPATITIS B
More than 686,000 people die every year due to complications of Hepatitis B, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
HPV ( HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS )
Most strains of HPV do not cause any visible warts or symptoms. As a result, individuals can pass the virus to others without knowing it.
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS
JE virus is the most important cause of viral encephalitis in Asia.
LYME DISEASE (LYME BORRELIOSIS)
The red, bullseye shaped rash (also known as erythema migrans) can develop in up to 90% of cases within 2-30 days (average is about 7 days) of the tick bite.
MALARIA
in 2015, nearly half of the world’s population – 3.2 billion people – was at risk of Malaria.
MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial form of meningitis, a serious infection of the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
PERTUSSIS
Half of the babies who catch whooping cough before they are one year old will need to spend time in the hospital.
POLIO
Polio is a highly infectious, viral disease.
RABIES
Rabies is a viral disease, which occurs in more than 150 countries and territories.
TETANUS (LOCK-JAW)
Tetanus is caused by a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium tetani.
TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS (TBE)
TBE is a viral disease affecting the central nervous system. In the last 30 years, the geographical range of TBE appears to have expanded to new areas.
TRAVELER’S DIARRHEA
Traveler’s diarrhea is the most common health problem for travelers, affecting up to 70% of travelers going to a developing country.
TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
1 in 3 of the world’s population have been infected with the TB bacteria but have not (yet) become ill as a result (known as talent TB)
TYPHOID
Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi), which only lives in humans.
YELLOW FEVER
Yellow Fever: Refers to jaundice that affects some patients. Is endemic and intermittently epidemic in parts of Africa and South America.
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