International Travel and Health 2003 - Situation as on 1 January 2003 (Paperback)

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