ILOs:
- Using examples, describe the causative agents and different routes of transmission of common tropical diseases
- Using examples, describe the incidence of common tropical diseases and discuss routes for intervention
- Using examples, describe the diagnosis, symptoms and pathological features of common tropical diseases
The returning traveller:
- Take a full travel history
- Refer to a specialist infectious diseases centre if any doubt
The prospective traveller:
- Assess risks in region of destination
- Offer advice on avoidance of disease, drug prophylaxis and necessary vaccination
- Ebola
- Mosquito borne diseases
- Vaccines for the following travel related diseases
- Kissing bugs
- Sleeping sickness
- Leishmaniasis
- Cholera
- Other arthropod borne diseases
- Water and foodborne diseases
- Schistosomiasis
- Respiratory diseases