Travel medicine : tales behind the science

Introduction (A. Wilder-Smith, E. Schwartz, M. Shaw) Section 1: The History of Travel Medicine The History of Travel Medicine as a new discipline (Gabriela Buck and Robert Steffen) Section 2:Education in Travel Medicine Education in Travel Medicine (Phyllis Kozarsky) The Gorgas course: Learning travel medicine while travelling (David O'Freedman) The Ten Commandments for Healthy Tropical Travel (Jay S.Keystone) Section 3:History of the Evolution of Travel Vaccines Routine Vaccinations and Travel (Peter R. Leggat) Recommended Travel Vaccines: From "Travel Vaccines" to universal vaccination: the hepatitis A story (Francis E. Andre) Required Travellers Vaccinations: Yellow Fever - The Disease and the Vaccine (Chen Collins) Remote Travel Vaccines: The undulating fortunes of typhoid vaccines (Eyal Meltzer, Eli Schwartz) Dodging the Bullet: preventing Rabies among international travellers (Paul M. Arguin, Nicole F. Oechslin) Section 4: Malarial drugs and Infections of Adventure Barking up the right trees? Malaria Drugs from Cinchona to Qing Hao (Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor) Infections of Adventure and Leisure (Annelies Wilder-Smith) Section 5: Personal Tales: Travel Medicine Practitioners Share Their Stories Final Log: Amazonas Adventure (Marc Shaw) Tales from the Mountains (Ted Lankester) Confessions of A 'Reality TV' Doc (Marc Shaw Tomb Raider's Crew Doctor (Laragh Gollogly) The Woman Atop the Crocodile: Newton's Law in Africa (Stephen Toovey) Section 5: Tales Behind the Research in Travel Medicine The Borneo Eco-Challenge: GeoSentinel & Rapid Global Sharing of Disease Outbreak Information (David O'Freedman) Understanding Malaria Prophylaxis: Lessons learnt on the Omo River, Ethiopia (Eli Schwartz) Travellers' diarrhoea: Tales from Mexico (Charles D. Ericsson ) The History of the CIWEC Clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal (Prativa Pandey, David R.Shlim) The History of Cyclospora at the CIWEC Clinic, Nepal (David R. Shlim) Meningococcal disease and the Hajj pilgrimage (Annelies Wilder-Smith) Too high too fast: experiences at high altitude (Ken Zafren) The Pleasures and Perils of Travelling with Young Children (Karl Neumann) Mongolian Expedition (Marc Shaw) Evacuation of travelers: Personal Anecdotes, Pearls and Conclusions (Yoel Donchin, Steven Marc Friedman) Section 7: Travelling for a Cause Globalization, Migration and Health: Disease and Disparity in the Global Village (Brian Gushulak) Stories of undocumented migrants to the USA (Nancy Piper-Jenks) Between crossing boundaries and respecting norms: The story of African Women Labor-Migrants in Israel (Galia Sabar) Humanitarian Care in Haiti and Rwanda (Anne E. McCarthy) Muslim Pilgrimage (Ziad A.Memish) The pilgrimages of Christianity (Michel J. Deprez) Hindu Pilgrimages (Santanu Chatterjee) Pilgrimages in the High Himalayas (Ken Zafran) Section 8: When diseases travel Cholera - a travel history of the first modern pandemic (Eyal Meltzer, Eli Schwartz) The role of armies in spreading epidemics: vector and victim (Eran Dolev) The Spread of Disease in the 20th Century & Lessons for the 21st Century (Stephen M. Ostroff) As travel Medicine Practitioner during the SARS outbreak in Singapore (Annelies Wilder-Smith) What does the travel medicine practitioner need to know about the International Health Regulations? (Max Hardiman) Section 9: Epilogue A look into the future: Space Travel (Larry DeLucas)