Asia/Pacific International Conference on Travel Medicine

Hi,Thanks for putting together your website. It’s very informative! I have a quick question I’m hoping you can help me…

Eurosurveillance Weekly Release features an article on an Italian Student that was the center of a measles outbreak in the…

Traveling with Children I know a lot of people that think they cannot take that dream vacation because they “have…

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec19341/index.htm This is part of a lecture series on Travel Medicine by Dr. Peter Leggat for James Cook University, Australia….

We have made it back from our travels in Greece, Crete and Egypt!  Our travels were amazing and we were…

One of the unique requirements of Travel and Expedition Medicine, besides the medical part, is a knowledge of geography. Where…

The good people at ProMed Mail has just sent out some new info on Dengue activity. For the “hard core”…

The border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was closed by the health officials in the DRC. This…

I came across an amazing resource, the other day, http://wildernessmedicinenewsletter.wordpress.com/. This is actually an older site that I am embarassed…

An Indian newpaper, http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1139181, ran a story about some new cases of trypanosomiasis reported in parts of Maharashtra including Mumbai….

Nicknamed “the African eye worm”, Loa loa is one of those tropical parasites that myths and legends are made of. …

WHO has confirmed that an outbreak in Sudan, originally thought to be Yellow Fever is actually Rift Valley Fever.  Areas…

Brazzaville, Congo is having some railway problems, due to recent flooding.  This is a problem for those looking to use…

A recent letter to the editor of Emerging Infectious Disease (EID), published by the CDC, discusses a case of Israeli…

Schistosomes Basics: Also known as Bilharziasis. This Trematode/blood fluke infection may lead to portal hypertension, liver fibrosis or bladder cancers,…