INTERNET SITES

 

Organizations

Educational Institutions

Other Online Resources

 

 

Organizations

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx

See Traveler's Health section. On-line references include full-text Health Information for International Travel, 1999-2000.

 

National Immunization Program                

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/

This site provides information about vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System; recommendations of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; epidemiology of illnesses; vaccine safety information; tables of recommendations for different age groups.

 

World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/en/

See International Travel and Health Information resource page for travelers. Gives information on travel-related diseases, health policy and statistics, drugs and medicines, food and nutrition.

 

International Society of Travel Medicine

http://www.istm.org/

Includes access to Journal of Travel Medicine and Newshare, Newsletter of the ISTM.

 

Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State

http://www.state.gov/

Includes consular information, travel advisories, security and incident reports.

 

Travel Warnings, U.S. Department of State          

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html

Public announcements and consular information sheets by country.

 

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

http://www.astmh.org/

Features include: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, tropical medicine news, press releases, travel clinic directory.

 

Shoreland:Travel Health Online

https://www.tripprep.com/scripts/main/default.asp

General travel health questions, preventive medicine, travel illnesses, U.S. State Department publications.

 

Canadian Society for International Health            

http://www.csih.org/en/index.asp

Introduces Health Canada's Quarantine, Travel and Migration Program; provides information on traveler's health centers, programs and papers of CSIH.

 

Travel Health: Travel Medicine Program          

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/

Presents Travel Medicine Program. Information includes international disease outbreaks, immunization recommendations, health advises for international travelers.

Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

 

Educational Institutions

 

Medical College of Wisconsin Physicians and Clinics        

http://healthlink.mcw.edu/travel-medicine/index.html

Travel diseases, injuries and vaccines presented in alphabetic order.

 

 

Other Online Resources

 

MedlinePlus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Search for terms such as: “travel medicine” or “travel health” and find information from valid, trustworthy resources.  A service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

 

Scirus

http://www.scirus.com

A “scientific information only” search engine developed by Elsevier.

 

The Healthy Traveler                        

http://www.healthytraveler.com/travelersresourc.html 

Includes vaccination and immunization updates; information on specific travel diseases, malaria prevention, traveler's diarrhea prevention and safety tips; updates on worldwide safety and security, and more.

 

 

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