RT Book, Section A1 Rao, Suchitra A2 Hay Jr., William W. A2 Levin, Myron J. A2 Abzug, Mark J. A2 Bunik, Maya SR Print(0) ID 1172115802 T1 Travel Medicine T2 Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 25e YR 2020 FD 2020 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781260457827 LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1172115802 RD 2024/03/28 AB Twenty-seven million people from the United States travel internationally per year; one-third of them travel to developing nations. Approximately 50%–70% of travelers become ill during their travel overseas. The number of children traveling with families continues to increase. Children who travel are especially susceptible to infectious diseases, trauma, and other health problems, which vary with the destination. Preparation for travel with children and infants includes consideration of destination-specific risks, underlying medical problems, and administration of both routine and travel-related vaccines. Pretravel counseling should ideally take place at least 1 month prior to travel, given the need to develop an effective immune response from any travel-associated vaccinations. The physician involved in pretravel counseling should focus on the issues listed in Table 45–1.