Survey highlights health risks of overseas travel
- 1 January 2004
- news
- Published by BMJ
- Vol. 328 (7430) , 7
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7430.7-a
Abstract
All large hospitals in the United Kingdom should have clinical staff specialising in infectious diseases to cope with the rise in overseas travel and the emergence of new diseases, says a new report. Researchers who carried out an audit at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, of cases of imported infections also call for more education about the prevention of malaria. Malaria accounted for the largest number of cases in the survey—85 out of a total of 301—and the …This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: