Topics include: Travel / Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), how to avoid illness, flying, diving, common parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), travellers diarrhea, red eye in traveler, incubation periods for illnesses, Malaria, insect bites, tick bites, leprosy.........
Additional topics in the 2008 edition: Wilderness and Winter survival techniques. Step-by-step instructions on finding food, water, shelter, reading a compass and first aid. How to survive environmental exposures such as extremes of heat, cold, radiation, lightening, snake & spider bites at much more. Features: Edited by Infectious Disease and Emergency Medicine specialists. Written by an Internal Medicine specialist.
Example of Contents: Links: Pre-trip Evaluation Basics | Advice to Traveler | Regional Risks | Air Travel | Vaccines | Medical Kit & Emergency (Winter-Wild) Survival | Diarrhea | Illness / Fever in Returned Traveler | Traveler-s Red Eye | Malaria | Zoonotic Infections | Ticks | Leptospirosis | Typhoid Fever | Yellow Fever | Jet Lag | Environmental / Exposures | Water Purification | Preamble-Abbrev-Labs |

Environmental Exposures: Links: Cold / Hypothermia | Drowning | Heat Illness | Flying & Diving | Hyperbaric Medicine | Altitude Sickness | Bites / Stings | Marine | Medical Kit & Emergency Survival | Winter & Wilderness Survival |

Zoonotic Infections: Links: Brucellosis | Rat Bite Fever | Toxoplasmosis | Toxocariasis | Other Parasites | Giardiasis | Leishmaniasis | Leptospirosis | Trypanosomiasis | Other Intestinal Illness | Entamoeba histolytica | Tick Spread Zoonosis | Rickettsial Diseases | Ectoparasites in travelers | PV & Repellents | Rabies | Insect Bites | Hemorrhagic Fevers |