9.1. Travel Related Infections - Intro Flashcards
What are the unfamiliar features of imported disease?
- Presenting Features
- Isolation Requirements
- Diagnostic Methods
- Treatment / Management
- Unexpected Complications
What increases vulnerability of travelers to infection?
- Temptation to take risk away from home
- Different epidemiology of some diseases
- Incomplete understanding of health hazzards
- Stress of travel
- Refugees
In relation to travelers vulnerability to infection, what is included in “Temptation to take Risks Away from Home”?
- New food
- Contaminated water
- Animals
- Sex
In relation to travelers vulnerability to infection, what is included in “different epidemiology of some diseases”?
- HIV
- TB
- Polio
- Diptheria
In relation to travelers vulnerability to infection, what is included in “Refugees”?
- Deprivation
- Malnutrition
- Disease
- Injury
What infections are very common worldwide?
- Influenza
- Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- Meningococcal Disease
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
What are some Climate / Environmental related Health Problems?
- Sunburn
- Heat Exhaustion / Heatstroke
- Fungal Infection
- Bacterial Skin Infections
- Cold Injury
- Altitude Sickness
What are 3 Public Health Measures which can control infection?
- Sanitation
- Immunization
- Education
What can infections can Sanitation help control?
- Travelers Diarrhoea
- Typhoid
- Hepatitis A / E
- Giardiasis
- Amoebiasis
- Helminth Infection
- Viral / Bacterial Gastroenteritis (Food Poisoning)
- Shigella Dystentery
- Cholera
- Cryptosporidiosis
What can infections can Immunization help control?
- Poliomyelitis
- Diphtheria
What can infections can Education help control?
- HIV / AIDS
- STD’s
What are common worldwide water-related infections?
- Schistosomiasis
- Leptospirosis
- Liver Flukes
- Strongyloidiasis
- Hookworms
- Guinea Worms
What are some common Anthropod-Borne infections?
- Malaria (Mosquitoes)
- Dengue Fever (Mosquitoes)
- Rickettsial Infections / Typhus (Ticks)
- Leishmaniasis (Sand-flies)
- Trypanosomiasis / Sleeping Sickness
(Tsetse Fly) - Filariasis / Elephantiasis (Mosquitoes)
- Onchocerciasis / River Blindness (Black Flies)
What are some emerging infectious diseases?
- Zika (Latin America)
- Ebola (West Africa)
- MERS-CoV (Middle-East)
- Swine ‘flu (worldwide)
- Avian ‘flu (China)
- SARS (Far East)
- West Nile Virus (USA)
What are the important tropical diseases to know about?
- Malaria (32-42%)
- Typhoid (2%)
- Dengue Fever (2-6%)
- Schistomiasis
- Rickettsiosis (0.5-1%)
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
- Zika Fever
