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<p>List of contributors, viii</p> <p>Foreword to the first edition by Alan J. Magill (deceased), xv</p> <p>Foreword to the second edition by Jay S. Keystone, xvii</p> <p>Preface, xix</p> <p>Envoi, xxi</p> <p>1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics, 1<br /><i>Francis. E.G. Cox and Frank J. Bia</i></p> <p>2 Nontraditional infectious diseases surveillance systems, 12<br /><i>Davidson H. Hamer, Kamran Khan, Matthew German, and Lawrence C. Madoff</i></p> <p>3 Air travel−which infectious disease control measures are worthwhile?, 25<br /><i>Karen J. Marienau</i></p> <p>4 Infectious illnesses on cruise and cargo ships, 35<br /><i>Joanna J. Regan, J. Scott Vega, and Clive M. Brown</i></p> <p>5 Microbes on the move: prevention, required vaccinations, curtailment, outbreak, 45<br /><i>Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor, Giles Poumerol, and Francisco Santos-O’Connor</i></p> <p>6 Diagnostic tests and procedures, 55<br /><i>Eskild Petersen and Tom Boyles</i></p> <p>7 Central Africa, 78<br /><i>Gerd D. Burchard and Martin P. Grobusch</i></p> <p>8 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, 93<br /><i>Philippe Gautret and Philippe Parola</i></p> <p>9 Eastern Africa, 104<br /><i>Andreas Neumayr and Christoph Hatz</i></p> <p>10 North Africa, 124<br /><i>Philippe Gautret, Nadjet Mouffok, and Philippe Parola</i></p> <p>11 Southern Africa, 137<br /><i>Marc Mendelson, Olga Perovic, and Lucille Blumberg</i></p> <p>12 West Africa, 154<br /><i>Boubacar Maiga and Patrick Ayeh-Kumi</i></p> <p>13 East Asia, 167<br /><i>Bin Cao, Fei Zhou, and Mikio Kimura</i></p> <p>14 South Central Asia, 185<br /><i>Holy Murphy, Gulzhan Abuova, and Prativa Pandey</i></p> <p>15 South-east Asia, 203<br /><i>Daniel H. Paris and Nicholas J. White</i></p> <p>16 Western Asia and the Middle East, 220<br /><i>Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Seif S. Al-Abri, and Ziad A. Memish</i></p> <p>17 Eastern Europe, 235<br /><i>Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, and Alexander Erovichenkov</i></p> <p>18 Northern Europe, 257<br /><i>Birgitta Evengard, Audrone Marcinkute, and Eskild Petersen</i></p> <p>19 Southern Europe, 269<br /><i>Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli, and Pier Francesco Giorgetti</i></p> <p>20 Western Europe, 278<br /><i>Peter J. de Vries and Eric Caumes</i></p> <p>21 The Caribbean, 302<br /><i>Elizabeth A. Talbot and Laura E. Shevy</i></p> <p>22 Central America, 317<br /><i>Larry I. Lutwick and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales</i></p> <p>23 South America, 335<br /><i>Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Luiz Jacintho da Silva, and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales</i></p> <p>24 Northern America, 356<br /><i>Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman, and Lin H. Chen</i></p> <p>25 Australia, New Zealand, 375<br /><i>Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, and Marc Shaw</i></p> <p>26 Oceania, 390<br /><i>Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, and Marc Shaw</i></p> <p>27 Arctic and Antarctica, 404<br /><i>Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce, and Karin Ladefoged</i></p> <p>28 The immunosuppressed patient, 419<br /><i>Brian T. Montague, Christopher M. Salas, Terri L. Montague, and Maria D. Mileno</i></p> <p>29 Emerging infections, 446<br /><i>Mary E. Wilson</i></p> <p>30 Migration and the geography of disease, 459<br /><i>Rogelio López-Vélez, Francesca F. Norman, and José-Antonio Pérez-Molina</i></p> <p>31 Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases, 470<br /><i>Ashwin Swaminathan, Elvina Viennet, Anthony J. McMichael, and David Harley</i></p> <p>List of abbreviations, 481</p> <p>Index, 484</p>

"This is the second edition of the only book that currently approaches patients based on geography and type and duration of symptoms. It presents the information in an easy-to-read format and has many tables dividing the diseases into common, less common, and rare. This is a welcome update that covers several emerging diseases such as MERS and Zika viral infections and includes two new chapters describing infections acquired during sea and air travel" <b>Winnie Ooi, MD, MPH, DMD, Harvard Medical School on belahlf of Doody’s</b>

<p><b> Eskild Petersen MD, DMSc, DTM&H, </b>Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Senior Consultant, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman <p><b> Lin H. Chen MD, FACP, FASTMH,</b> Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA <p><b> Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor PhD, FFTM, RCPSS (Glasg), FISTM,</b> Senior Scientist and Professor, University of Zürich, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zürich, Switzerland

<p> The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. <p> Divided according to United Nations world regions, this book covers the geographic disease profile, presenting symptoms, and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries included in that region. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious disease risk and problems with resistant bacteria in each region. <p> For the clinician, this book provides an aid to generate differential diagnoses by considering the geographical history of their patient alongside the presenting symptoms and duration of illness. For the travel medicine specialist, this book provides information on risks of different diseases at various destinations and is particularly useful in advising long-term travelers. <ul> <li>Only book on the market to include a mainly geographic, as opposed to disease-based approach</li> <li>Geographic approach means that it's the only book to guide the healthcare worker towards a diagnosis based on the location of symptoms and travel history by encouraging the question "Where have you been?"</li> <li>New content covering Ebola and Zika, and infections transmitted during air and maritime travel</li> <li>Covers the major infectious diseases framed in their geographic setting such as H7N9 "bird flu" influenza, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika</li> <li>Outstanding international editor team with vast experience on various international infectious disease committees, journals, surveillance groups, and panels</li> </ul> <br>

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