International Travel and Health : Vaccination Requirements and Health Advice : Situation As on 1 January 2001 (International Travel and Health)

This annual guide issues authoritative advice to medical and personal precautions needed to protect the health of travellers. The booklet is addressed to national health administrations and to the practising physicians, tourist agencies, shipping companies, airline operators, and other bodies who are called in upon to give health advice to travellers. In addition to summarizing the vaccination requirements of individual countries, the booklet indicates the main areas where malaria transmission occurs and where Plasmodium falciparium is resistant to drugs. Other chapters cover certain health hazards to which the traveller may be exposed and indicate the area in which these hazards are most likely to occur.