Cdc Yellow Book 2024 - Health Information for International Travel

The definitive reference for travel medicine, updated for 2024!

For over half a century, the CDC Yellow Book has been providing trusted, vetted, reliable information for travelers and professionals. Along with disease- and destination-based recommendations for vaccines and precautions, this comprehensive resource serves as a guide to understanding and addressing the various health threats associated with all types of international travel, including pandemic guidance.

List of contents

• List of Maps, by topic


• CDC Contributors


• External Contributors


• Acknowledgments


• Preface


• Dedication


• 1 Introduction




• Disease Patterns in Travelers


• ...perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ


• Maps and Travel Medicine


• Improving the Quality of Travel Medicine through Education and Training


• 2 Preparing International Travelers




• The Pretravel Consultation


• ...perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk


• Vaccination and Immunoprophylaxis-General Principles


• Interactions Between Travel Vaccines and Drugs


• Yellow Fever Vaccine and Malaria Prevention Information, by Country


• Travelers' Diarrhea


• ...perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers' Diarrhea-Balancing Benefit and Risk


• Food and Water Precautions


• Water Disinfection


• Travel Health Kits


• Last-Minute Travelers


• Mental Health


• LGBTQ+ Travelers


• Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches to Travel Wellness


• Prioritizing Care for Resource-Limited Travelers


• Telemedicine


• ...perspectives: Risk Management Issues in Travel Medicine


• 3 Travelers with Additional Considerations




• Immunocompromised Travelers


• Travelers with Disabilities


• Travelers with Chronic Illnesses


• Highly Allergic Travelers


• Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders


• 4 Environmental Hazards and Risks


• Sun Exposure


• Extremes of Temperature


• Air Quality and Ionizing Radiation


• Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness and Other Dive-Related Injuries


• High Elevation Travel and Altitude Illness


• Mosquitoes, Ticks and Other Arthropods


• Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches and Other Hazards


• Zoonoses-The One Health Approach


• Bringing Animals and Animal Products into the United States


• Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins


• Safety and Security Overseas


• Injury and Trauma


• Death During Travel


• 5 Travel-Associated Infections and Diseases




• BACTERIAL


• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Bacterial


• Anthrax


• Bartonella Infections


• Brucellosis


• Campylobacteriosis


• Cholera


• Diphtheria


• Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic


• Helicobacter pylori


• Legionnaires' Disease and Pontiac Fever


• Leptospirosis


• Lyme Disease


• Melioidosis


• Meningococcal Disease


• Pertussis / Whooping Cough


• Plague


• Pneumococcal Disease


• Q Fever


• Rickettsial Diseases


• Salmonellosis, Nontyphoidal


• Shigellosis


• Tetanus


• Tuberculosis


• ...perspectives: Testing Travelers for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection


• Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever


• Yersiniosis


• VIRAL


• Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Viral


• B Virus


• Chikungunya


• COVID-19


• Dengue


• Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease


• Henipavirus Infections


• Hepatitis A


• Hepatitis B


• Hepatitis C


• Hepatitis E


• Human Immunodeficiency Virus / HIV


• Influenza


• Japanese Encephalitis


• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome / MERS


• Mumps


• Norovirus


• Poliomyelitis


• Rabies


• ...perspectives: Rabies Immunization


• Rubella


• Rubeola / Measles


• Smallpox and Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections


• Tick-Borne Encephalitis


• Varicella / Chickenpox


• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers


• Yellow Fever


• Zika


• PARASITIC


• Amebiasis


• Angiostrongyliasis


• Cryptosporidiosis


• Cutaneous Larva Migrans


• Cyclosporiasis


• Cysticercosis


• Echinococcosis


• Enterobiasis / Pinworm


• Filariasis, Lymphatic


• Flukes, Liver


• Flukes, Lung


• Giardiasis


• Helminths, Soil-Transmitted


• Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous


• Leishmaniasis, Visceral


• Malaria


• Onchocerciasis / River Blindness


• Sarcocystosis


• Scabies


• Schistosomiasis


• Strongyloidiasis


• Taeniasis


• Toxoplasmosis


• Trypanosomiasis, African


• Trypanosomiasis, American / Chagas Disease


• FUNGAL


• Coccidioidomycosis / Valley Fever


• Histoplasmosis


• 6 Health Care Abroad


• Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance and Medical Evacuation Insurance


• Obtaining Health Care Abroad


• ...perspectives: Avoiding Poorly Regulated Medicines and Medical Products during Travel


• Medical Tourism


• 7 Family Travel




• Pregnant Travelers


• Travel and Breastfeeding


• Traveling Safely with Infants and Children


• Vaccine Recommendations for Infants and Children


• International Adoption


• Traveling with Pets and Service Animals


• 8 Travel by Air, Land and Sea


• Air Travel


• ...perspectives: Responding to Medical Emergencies when Flying


• Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism


• Jet Lag


• Road and Traffic Safety


• Cruise Ship Travel


• Motion Sickness


• Airplanes and Cruise Ships: Illness and Death Reporting and Public Health Interventions


• 9 Travel for Work and Other Reasons


• The International Business Traveler


• Advice for Aircrew


• ...perspectives: People Who Fly for a Living-Health Myths and Realities


• Health Care Workers, Including Public Health Researchers and Medical Laboratorians


• Humanitarian Aid Workers


• United States Military Deployments


• Long-Term Travelers and Expatriates


• Study Abroad and Other International Student Travel


• Visiting Friends and Relatives: VFR Travel


• Mass Gatherings


• Adventure Travel


• Sex and Travel


• 10 Popular Itineraries


• The Rationale for Popular Itineraries


• AFRICA and THE MIDDLE EAST


• African Safaris


• Saudi Arabia: Hajj and Umrah Pilgrimages


• South Africa


• Tanzania and Zanzibar


• THE AMERICAS and THE CARIBBEAN


• Brazil


• Dominican Republic


• Haiti


• Mexico


• Peru


• ASIA


• Burma (Myanmar)


• China


• India


• Nepal


• Thailand


• 11 Posttravel Evaluation


• General Approach to the Returned Traveler


• Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases


• ...perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers


• Fever in the Returned Traveler


• Antimicrobial Resistance


• Respiratory Infections


• Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers


• Dermatological Conditions


• ...perspectives: Delusional Parasitosis


• Sexually Transmitted Infections


• Newly Arrived Immigrants, Refugees and Other Migrants

About the author

About the Editor in Chief:

Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD, served as senior medical officer in the Travelers' Health Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2017 to 2023.

About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a United States federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Summary

For over half a century, the CDC Yellow Book has been a trusted resource, providing international travelers and clinicians with expert guidance for safe and healthy travel abroad. Along with disease-specific prevention and treatment recommendations, this comprehensive reference text provides readers with the background and context needed to understand and address health threats associated with all types of international travel.

FEATURED IN THIS EDITION:

· Precautions for international travelers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, including links to updated information on related CDC and US government websites
· Updates on practicing travel medicine in a virtual environment
· New standalone vaccine tables for bacterial and viral diseases with links to the relevant Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and US FDA websites
· Safe international travel with pets and service animals
· Advice for obtaining healthcare abroad including guidance on different types of travel insurance
· Guidelines for self-treating common travel conditions including altitude illness, jet lag, motion sickness, and travelers' diarrhea
· Detailed maps showing the distribution of travel-associated infections and diseases, including dengue and meningococcal meningitis
· Country-specific mosquito avoidance, yellow fever vaccine, and malaria prevention recommendations
· Food and drink precautions, plus updated water-disinfection techniques
· Expanded content on safe international travel for specific groups including: LGBTQ+ individuals, highly allergic travelers, travelers with substance use issues, and medical tourists
· Specialized recommendations for non-leisure travelers, study abroad, work-related travel, and travel to mass gatherings
· Health insights for 14 popular destinations and itineraries in Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and the Caribbean, and Asia
· Considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees

Additional text

This is the gold-standard in the field of travel medicine due to its enormous scope, expertise, and ease of use.

Product details

• Authors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , Gary W. Brunette, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nemhauser
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2023
• EAN: 9780197570944
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757094-4
• No. of pages: 912
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Personal & public health, Infectious & contagious diseases, Personal and public health / health education, Infectious and contagious diseases, Epidemiology and Medical statistics