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Sentinel surveillance data from Eritrean migrants in Italy: The theory of “Healthy Migrants”
Eritrean migrants accounted for the majority of people who drowned in the Mediterranean this year. Recently, data deficit about international migration has been reported. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 30, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Massimo Ciccozzi, Eleonora Cella, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Serena Vita, Giordano Dicuonzo, Maurizio Lopalco, Francesca Antonelli, Alessia Conti, Rossella Ottaviani, Marina De Cesaris, Silvia Spoto, Silvia Angeletti Source Type: research

Zika virus infection in travelers returning from countries with local transmission, Guangdong, China, 2016
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus spreading rapidly in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. No indigenous ZIKV infection had been seen in China. We monitored ZIKV infection among travelers returning to Enping county from ZIKV transmitting countries from 1 March to 10 April 2016. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 25, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Haimei Jia, Meng Zhang, Maoyu Chen, Zhiwen Yang, Jiansen Li, Guo Huang, Dawei Guan, Xiaoli Cen, Lijie Zhang, Qiwen Feng, Jianron Yi, De Wu, Haojie Zhong, Huilai Ma, Tie Song Source Type: research

Mefloquine revisited
Hardly any other antimalarial drug's safety that is currently used for chemoprophylaxis in travelers has been so passionately debated as mefloquine's over the past two decades [1]. Formulated at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the 1970s, and becoming commercially available for prophylactic use in Europe in 1985 and the US in 1990, mefloquine has since been widely used as one of the main antimalarials recommended in travelers for this purpose [2]. Mefloquine's safety profile yet in particular its subsequent association with neurologic or psychiatric adverse events including psychosis and suicide have since rai...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Stefan H.F. Hagmann Source Type: research

Arrivals and “gifts” for Christmas Island
Christmas Island (CHI) is a tiny spot (350 km2) located at 10 °30′S in the Indian Ocean. It lies 360 km south of Jakarta and 2′600 km west of Perth (www.christmas.net.au). Christmas Island is Australian territory. The island was appropriately named by Captain William Mynors on the 25th of December,1643. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: D. St ürchler Source Type: research

UK malaria guidelines – Dynamic changes for 2017
Malaria prevention guidelines are published each year from Public Health England (PHE). These are written by a panel of experts - the Advisory Committee for Malaria Prevention (ACMP) and form the basis of advice UK healthcare professionals provide to their travellers. Such practice has been ongoing for a number of years, but 2017 sees a significant change in the advice provided for over 30 countries where the recommendation for prevention has gone from a choice of chemoprophylaxis in 2016 to one of bite avoidance instead. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jane Chiodini Tags: Serendipity Source Type: research

Atovaquone/proguanil (Maloff Protect) is now available without prescription in UK pharmacies
We read with interest the TMAID paper regarding the continuing challenges for mefloquine prescribing [1]. Recently, revised guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the United Kingdom, 2017, were published [2], and these guidelines, which are informed by global epidemiology, present significant changes to previous recommendations for chemoprophylaxis. In particular, recognising that the world malaria situation has improved significantly in some regions, for many countries in Asia and South America the level of risk for UK travellers has been downgraded to low or very low; bite avoidance only is recommended and ...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hilary Simons, Dipti Patel Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research

Digestive tract colonization by multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in travellers: An update
Enterobacteriaceae have become increasingly resistant, especially due to the acquisition and spread of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), which confer resistance to the majority of beta-lactams. Multi-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MRE) were first isolated in hospitals, but now they are disseminating in the community setting, mostly in low and middle income countries. Consequently, the increasing number of international travels leads to the importation of MRE from high-prevalence to low-prevalence countries. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 16, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Etienne Rupp é, Antoine Andremont, Laurence Armand-Lefèvre Source Type: research

Streaming data from a smartphone application: A new approach to mapping health during travel
New research methods offer opportunities to investigate the influence of environment on health during travel. Our study uses data from a smartphone application to describe spatial and environmental patterns in health among travellers. (Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease)
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 15, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Andrea Farnham, Martin R öösli, Ulf Blanke, Emily Stone, Christoph Hatz, Milo A. Puhan Source Type: research

Hajj – Beyond traveller's diarrhea
We read the valuable article by Leangapichart et al. [1] systematically reviewing antimicrobial resistance infections associated with pilgrims travelling to perform Hajj. Travelling and human displacement contribute significantly to the global transmission of infectious diseases. Approximately 1.1 billion people, constituting 15% of the world's population, travelled across international borders in 2014, and this number is predicted to increase to 1.8 billion by 2025 [2]. A significant proportion of this travel includes international travellers participating in planned and recurrent mass gatherings such as pilgrimages and s...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 10, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Moataz Abd El Ghany, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne, Ziad A. Memish Source Type: research

Hajj – Beyond traveller's diarrhea
We read the valuable article by Leangapichart et al. [1] systematically reviewing antimicrobial resistance infections associated with pilgrims traveling to perform Hajj. Travelling and human displacement contribute significantly to the global transmission of infectious diseases. Approximately 1.1 billion people, constituting 15% of the world's population, travelled across international borders in 2014, and this number is predicted to increase to 1.8 billion by 2025 [2]. A significant proportion of this travel includes international travellers participating in planned and recurrent mass gatherings such as pilgrimages and sp...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 10, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Moataz Abd El Ghany, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne, Ziad A. Memish Source Type: research

Outbreaks caused by Aedes aegyptis due to El Ni ño in a coastal area of Peru
Peru was considered by the Tyndall Centre as the third country most at risk (after Bangladesh and Honduras) of suffering the consequences of climate change [1]. Since the beginning of 2017, the reappearance of the coastal “El Niño” is affecting the health and economy of the Peruvian population due to inundations, landslides, droughts, and high temperatures [2]. The departments of the coastal zones bordering the Pacific Ocean have been the most affected due to rising river beds, with concomitant floods and mudsli des [3,4], as well as causing epidemic outbreaks, deaths, and economic losses [2,5]. (Source: Travel Medici...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - November 9, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Eloy F. Ruiz, Claudia M. Vasquez-Galindo, Ximena M. Aquije-Pariona, J. Smith Torres-Roman Source Type: research