Risks of travel, benefits of a specialist consult.
If patients are planning to travel to developing countries, their primary care physicians can counsel them on various medical risks, especially traveler's diarrhea, and offer to update their immunizations. However, travelers to areas where there is a risk of malaria, yellow fever, or other tropical diseases should be referred to a specialist.
Powell
Brenda
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Department of Family Medicine, BO-10, Cleveland Clinic Beachwood, 26900 Cedar Road, Beachwood, OH 44122, USA. powellb1@ccf.org
Ford
Charles
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D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000517:prevention & control; D003906:Developing Countries; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D008511:Medicine; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014195:Travel; D057236:Travel Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D014435:Typhoid Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D014871:Water Microbiology; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control