Today, I link to, and explore the CDC‘s outstanding resource for Travel Medicine, 2024 CDC Yellow Book.
All that follows is from the above outstanding resource.
CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel is a resource for healthcare professionals providing care to international travelers. It compiles the US government’s most current travel health guidelines, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts.
ABOUT TABLE OF CONTENTS RESOURCES
Section 1: Introduction
- Disease Patterns in Travelers
- Disease Patterns in Travelers
- Perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ
- Maps & Travel Medicine
- Improving the Quality of Travel Medicine Through Education & Training
- Maps & Travel Medicine
- Improving the Quality of Travel Medicine Through Education & Training
Section 2: Preparing International Travelers
- The Pretravel Consultation
- Perspectives: Travelers’ Perception of Risk
- Vaccination & Immunoprophylaxis— General Principles
- Interactions Between Travel Vaccines & Drugs
- Yellow Fever Vaccine & Malaria Prevention Information, by Country
- Travelers’ Diarrhea
- Perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers’ Diarrhea – Balancing Benefit & Risk
- Food & Water Precautions
- Water Disinfection
- Travel Health Kits
- Last-Minute Travelers
- Mental Health
- LGBTQ+ Travelers
- Complementary & Integrative Health Approaches to Travel Wellness
- Prioritizing Care for Resource-Limited Travelers
- Telemedicine
- Perspectives: Risk Management Issues in Travel Medicine
Section 3: Travelers with Additional Considerations
- Immunocompromised Travelers
- Travelers with Disabilities
- Travelers with Chronic Illnesses
- Highly Allergic Travelers
- Substance Use & Substance Use Disorders
Section 4: Environmental Hazards & Risks
- Sun Exposure
- Extremes of Temperature
- Air Quality & Ionizing Radiation
- Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness & Other Dive-Related Injuries
- High Elevation Travel & Altitude Illness
- Mosquitoes, Ticks & Other Arthropods
- Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches & Other Hazards
- Zoonoses—The One Health Approach
- Bringing Animals & Animal Products into the United States
- Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins
- Safety & Security Overseas
- Injury & Trauma
- Death During Travel
- Poisonings, Envenomations, and Toxic Exposures
Section 5: Travel-Associated Infections & Diseases – Bacterial
- Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Bacterial
- Anthrax
- Bartonella Infections
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Escherichia coli, Diarrheagenic
- Helicobacter pylori
- Legionnaires’ Disease & Pontiac Fever
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme Disease
- Melioidosis
- Meningococcal Disease
- Pertussis / Whooping Cough
- Plague
- Pneumococcal Disease
- Q Fever
- Rickettsial Diseases
- Salmonellosis, Nontyphoidal
- Shigellosis
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Perspectives: Testing Travelers for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection
- Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever
- Yersiniosis
Section 5: Travel-Associated Infections & Diseases – Viral
- Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Viral
- B Virus
- Chikungunya
- COVID-19
- Dengue
- Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease
- Henipavirus Infections
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis E
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus / HIV
- Influenza
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome / MERS
- Mumps
- Norovirus
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Perspectives: Rabies Immunization
- Rubella
- Rubeola / Measles
- Smallpox & Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated Infections
- Tick-Borne Encephalitis
- Varicella / Chickenpox
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Yellow Fever
- Zika
Section 5: Travel-Associated Infections & Diseases – Parasitic
- Amebiasis
- Angiostrongyliasis
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cutaneous Larva Migrans
- Cyclosporiasis
- Cysticercosis
- Echinococcosis
- Enterobiasis / Pinworm
- Filariasis, Lymphatic
- Flukes, Liver
- Flukes, Lung
- Giardiasis
- Helminths, Soil-Transmitted
- Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
- Leishmaniasis, Visceral
- Malaria
- Onchocerciasis / River Blindness
- Sarcocystosis
- Scabies
- Schistosomiasis
- Strongyloidiasis
- Taeniasis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Trypanosomiasis, African
- Trypanosomiasis, American / Chagas Disease
Section 5: Travel-Associated Infections & Diseases – Fungal
Section 6: Health Care Abroad
- Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance & Medical Evacuation Insurance
- Obtaining Health Care Abroad
- Perspectives: Avoiding Poorly Regulated Medicines & Medical Products During Travel
- Medical Tourism
Section 7: Family Travel
- Pregnant Travelers
- Travel & Breastfeeding
- Traveling Safely with Infants & Children
- Vaccine Recommendations for Infants & Children
- International Adoption
- Traveling with Pets & Service Animals
Section 8: Travel by Air, Land & Sea
- Air Travel
- Perspectives: Responding to Medical Emergencies When Flying
- Deep Vein Thrombosis & Pulmonary Embolism
- Jet Lag
- Road & Traffic Safety
- Cruise Ship Travel
- Motion Sickness
- Airplanes & Cruise Ships: Illness & Death Reporting & Public Health Interventions
Section 9: Travel for Work & Other Reasons
- The International Business Traveler
- Advice for Aircrew
- Perspectives: People Who Fly for a Living – Health Myths & Realities
- Health Care Workers, Including Public Health Researchers & Medical Laboratorians
- Humanitarian Aid Workers
- United States Military Deployments
- Long-Term Travelers & Expatriates
- Study Abroad & Other International Student Travel
- Visiting Friends & Relatives: VFR Travel
- Mass Gatherings
- Adventure Travel
- Sex & Travel
Section 11: Posttravel Evaluation
- General Approach to the Returned Traveler
- Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases
- Perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers
- Fever in the Returned Traveler
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Respiratory Infections
- Persistent Diarrhea in Returned Travelers
- Dermatologic Conditions
- Perspectives: Delusional Parasitosis
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Newly Arrived Immigrants, Refugees & Other Migrants
