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