RT Book, Section
A1 Rao, Suchitra
A2 Bunik, Maya
A2 Hay, William W.
A2 Levin, Myron J.
A2 Abzug, Mark J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1190373161
T1 Travel Medicine
T2 Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 26e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264269983
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190373161
RD 2022/07/06
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.  Since  COVID-19  was  declared  a  public  health  emergency  of  international  concern  on  January  30,  2020,  air  travel  and  tourism  has  been  drastically  reduced  worldwide  in  an  effort  to  curb  the  spread  of  SARS-  CoV-2,  and  local  transmission  rates  and  individual  level  of  risk  need  to  also  be  taken  into  consideration  during  pre-travel  counseling.