Travel Medicine

Definitions

Anthrax*	Respiratory and Skin infection from contaminated cattle.
Cholera	Food and Water contaminate causing diarrhea illness.
Chickenpox*	Viral illness causing 10 days of pox and fever
Diphtheria*	Bacterial throat infection with high fever and sequele.
Hepatitis A*	Viral infection from contaminated food causing fever & jaundice
Hepatitis B*	Viral infection from human secretions causing liver infection.
Human papilomavirus*	Viral sexually transmitted disease causing warts and cancer
Influenza*	Viral respiratory infection causing pnuemonia and high fever
Malaria*	Mosquito born illness with fever and serious sequele.
Measles*	Viral infection causing rash and fever.
Meningococcus*	Bacterial infection causing brain infection and death.
Mumps*	Viral infection of salivary glands
Pertussis*	Bacterial infection of the lung.
Pneumonia*	Any infection of the lung tissue.
Polio*	Viral infection causing paralysis.
Rabies*	Viral infection from a "rabid animal"
Rotavirus*	Common type of viral diarrhea illness.
Rubella *	Viral infection with fever and rash.
Smallpox	No longer present on planet Earth.
Tetanus*	Bacterial wound infection causing paralysis and death
Traveller's Diarrhea	Common diarrhea illness from contaminated food or water
Typhoid*	Diarrhea based illness from contaminated food or water.
Yellow Fever*	Mosquito born illness with fever and serious sequele.
Zoster*	Painful rash reoccuring from childhood chickpox.
* Potentially preventable with vaccination or prophylactic medication