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CDC Health Information for International Travel 2008

Diseases Related to Travel

Information for travelers about specific diseases which can affect them while traveling. Note: For travel recommendations by specific regions, please see Destinations.

African sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis)

AIDS/HIV

Altitude illness

Amebiasis

BSE ("mad cow disease") and nvCJD

Campylobacter infections

Chagas’ disease (American trypanosomiasis)

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Chikungunya Fever

Cholera

Coccidioidomycosis

Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium infection)

Cyclosporiasis (Cyclospora infection)

Dengue fever

Diarrhea

Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis

E. coli (Escherichia coli) infection

Encephalitis

Filariasis

Giardiasis (Giardia infection)

Hantavirus

Head lice (pediculosis)

  • Head lice (from Division of Parasitic Diseases)

Hepatitis

Histoplasmosis

HIV/AIDS
See AIDS/HIV

Influenza (flu)

Japanese Encephalitis

Legionellosis

Leishmaniasis (Leishmania infection)

Leptospirosis

Lyme disease

Malaria

Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)

  • Measles (Rubeola) (from Health Information for International Travel)
  • Mumps (from Health Information for International Travel)
  • Rubella (German measles) (from Health Information for International Travel)
  • Measles (from National Immunization Program)
  • Mumps (from National Immunization Program)
  • Rubella (from National Immunization Program)

Meningitis

Norovirus infection (Norwalk/Norwalk-like virus infection)

Onchocerciasis (river blindness)

Plague

Poliomyelitis

Rabies

Rickettsial Infections

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Rotavirus

  • Rotavirus (from the Division of Viral Diseases)

Salmonellosis (Salmonella infection)

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

Scabies

  • Scabies (from Division of Parasitic Diseases)

Schistosomiasis

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
Also see hepatitis and AIDS/HIV

Shigellosis (Shigella infection)

Smallpox

Streptococcus pneumoniae (Pneumococcal) Disease

Tickborne Encephalitis

Tuberculosis (TB)

Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi)

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
(e.g., Ebola, Lassa, Marburg, Rift Valley)

West Nile virus

Yellow fever

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  • Page last updated: June 18, 2008
  • Content source:
    Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
    National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases
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