About the Editor in Chief:

Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD, served as senior medical officer in the Travelers' Health Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 2017 to 2023.

About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a United States federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

List of Maps, by topicCDC ContributorsExternal ContributorsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceDedication1 IntroductionDisease Patterns in Travelers ...perspectives: Why Guidelines Differ Maps and Travel MedicineImproving the Quality of Travel Medicine through Education and Training2 Preparing International TravelersThe Pretravel Consultation ...perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk Vaccination and Immunoprophylaxis-General PrinciplesInteractions Between Travel Vaccines and DrugsYellow Fever Vaccine and Malaria Prevention Information, by CountryTravelers' Diarrhea ...perspectives: Antibiotics in Travelers' Diarrhea-Balancing Benefit and Risk Food and Water PrecautionsWater DisinfectionTravel Health KitsLast-Minute TravelersMental HealthLGBTQ+ TravelersComplementary and Integrative Health Approaches to Travel WellnessPrioritizing Care for Resource-Limited TravelersTelemedicine ...perspectives: Risk Management Issues in Travel Medicine3 Travelers with Additional ConsiderationsImmunocompromised TravelersTravelers with DisabilitiesTravelers with Chronic IllnessesHighly Allergic TravelersSubstance Use and Substance Use Disorders4 Environmental Hazards and RisksSun ExposureExtremes of TemperatureAir Quality and Ionizing RadiationScuba Diving: Decompression Illness and Other Dive-Related InjuriesHigh Elevation Travel and Altitude IllnessMosquitoes, Ticks and Other ArthropodsZoonotic Exposures: Bites, Stings, Scratches and Other HazardsZoonoses-The One Health ApproachBringing Animals and Animal Products into the United StatesFood Poisoning from Marine ToxinsSafety and Security OverseasInjury and TraumaDeath During Travel5 Travel-Associated Infections and DiseasesBACTERIALVaccine-Preventable Diseases: BacterialAnthraxBartonella InfectionsBrucellosisCampylobacteriosisCholeraDiphtheriaEscherichia coli, DiarrheagenicHelicobacter pyloriLegionnaires' Disease and Pontiac FeverLeptospirosisLyme DiseaseMelioidosisMeningococcal DiseasePertussis / Whooping CoughPlaguePneumococcal DiseaseQ FeverRickettsial DiseasesSalmonellosis, NontyphoidalShigellosisTetanusTuberculosis ...perspectives: Testing Travelers for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Typhoid and Paratyphoid FeverYersiniosisVIRALVaccine-Preventable Diseases: ViralB VirusChikungunyaCOVID-19DengueHand, Foot and Mouth DiseaseHenipavirus InfectionsHepatitis AHepatitis BHepatitis CHepatitis EHuman Immunodeficiency Virus / HIVInfluenzaJapanese EncephalitisMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome / MERSMumpsNorovirusPoliomyelitisRabies ...perspectives: Rabies Immunization RubellaRubeola / MeaslesSmallpox and Other Orthopoxvirus-Associated InfectionsTick-Borne EncephalitisVaricella / ChickenpoxViral Hemorrhagic FeversYellow FeverZikaPARASITICAmebiasisAngiostrongyliasisCryptosporidiosisCutaneous Larva MigransCyclosporiasisCysticercosisEchinococcosisEnterobiasis / PinwormFilariasis, LymphaticFlukes, LiverFlukes, LungGiardiasisHelminths, Soil-TransmittedLeishmaniasis, CutaneousLeishmaniasis, VisceralMalariaOnchocerciasis / River BlindnessSarcocystosisScabiesSchistosomiasisStrongyloidiasisTaeniasisToxoplasmosisTrypanosomiasis, AfricanTrypanosomiasis, American / Chagas DiseaseFUNGALCoccidioidomycosis / Valley FeverHistoplasmosis6 Health Care AbroadTravel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance and Medical Evacuation InsuranceObtaining Health Care Abroad ...perspectives: Avoiding Poorly Regulated Medicines and Medical Products during Travel Medical Tourism7 Family TravelPregnant TravelersTravel and BreastfeedingTraveling Safely with Infants and ChildrenVaccine Recommendations for Infants and ChildrenInternational AdoptionTraveling with Pets and Service Animals8 Travel by Air, Land and SeaAir Travel ...perspectives: Responding to Medical Emergencies when Flying Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary EmbolismJet LagRoad and Traffic SafetyCruise Ship TravelMotion SicknessAirplanes and Cruise Ships: Illness and Death Reporting and Public Health Interventions9 Travel for Work and Other ReasonsThe International Business TravelerAdvice for Aircrew ...perspectives: People Who Fly for a Living-Health Myths and Realities Health Care Workers, Including Public Health Researchers and Medical LaboratoriansHumanitarian Aid WorkersUnited States Military DeploymentsLong-Term Travelers and ExpatriatesStudy Abroad and Other International Student TravelVisiting Friends and Relatives: VFR TravelMass GatheringsAdventure TravelSex and Travel10 Popular ItinerariesThe Rationale for Popular ItinerariesAFRICA and THE MIDDLE EASTAfrican SafarisSaudi Arabia: Hajj and Umrah PilgrimagesSouth AfricaTanzania and ZanzibarTHE AMERICAS and THE CARIBBEANBrazilDominican RepublicHaitiMexicoPeruASIABurma (Myanmar)ChinaIndiaNepalThailand11 Posttravel EvaluationGeneral Approach to the Returned TravelerRapid Diagnostic Tests for Infectious Diseases ...perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Returned Travelers Fever in the Returned TravelerAntimicrobial ResistanceRespiratory InfectionsPersistent Diarrhea in Returned TravelersDermatological Conditions ...perspectives: Delusional Parasitosis Sexually Transmitted InfectionsNewly Arrived Immigrants, Refugees and Other Migrants