Book Description
Here’s the cutting-edge New Edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s famed "Yellow Book"—the most authoritative guide of its kind! This resource offers vital pre-travel healthcare recommendations and essential information on health risks abroad. It’s written by experts at the CDC in Atlanta, and is the only publication that bears stamps of approval from the CDC and the US Department of Health and Human Services. Required reading for physicians, health-care professionals, and frequent travelers alike! * Reviews the countries that require a vaccination certificate for entry as well as US Public Health Service Recommendations and WHO International Health Requirements for vaccination. * Features vaccination recommendations and disease prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS, cholera, hepatitis, influenza, plague, SARS, small pox, viral hemorrhagic fevers, and many other illnesses. * Includes a separate chapter on yellow fever vaccine requirements and information on malaria risk and prophylaxis by country. * Presents invaluable advice on dealing with hazards associated with natural disasters, animals, cruise ships, swimming, food and drink, altitude and motion sickness, sunburn, blood transfusion, and more. * Details the geographic distribution of potential health hazards to travelers by continent.
About the author
Phyllis E. Kozarsky, MD, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases; Chief, Travelers' Health and Tropical Medicine Section, Emory University School of Medicine; Senior Traveler’s Health Consultant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; and Paul M. Arguin, MD, Acting Branch Chief, Geographic Medicine and Health Promotion Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; and Ava W. Navin.
