STEP 1: History of travel | |
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A. PRE-TRAVEL PREPARATIONS | Pre-travel consultation: date, location, contact details |
Immunizations received and dates; oral versus injectable formulation if applicable; completion of full vaccination series for travel and for routine childhood immunizations | |
Malaria prophylaxis: drug, dose, schedule, adherence, duration, side effects | |
Other prophylaxis: drug, dose, schedule, adherence, duration, side effects | |
Other personal protective measures: standby treatment of malaria / travellers’ diarrhea; bednets; clothing; insecticide use | |
Air transportation preparations: deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis, medications for jet lag | |
Environmental risk preparations: sun, extreme heat, altitude | |
B. SPECIFIC TRAVEL ITINERARY | Dates of travel (approximation of incubation period) |
Season of travel: rainy, dry | |
Specific destinations: regions; urban, rural; proximity to fresh water; jungle, desert | |
Reason for travel: tourism, business, visiting friends and relatives (VFR), other | |
Style of travel: accommodation; off typical tourist routes; camping, trekking | |
Local population: possible TB contacts, outbreaks, illnesses | |
Transportation: crowding; use of animals such as camels, elephants | |
C. EXPOSURE HISTORY* | Street foods / Local water (enteric fever, travellers’ diarrhea) |
Arthropod bites (malaria, dengue, chikungunya, arboviruses, Rickettsia, African trypanosomiasis) | |
Uncooked meat / unpasteurized dairy (trichinosis, brucellosis, toxoplasmosis) | |
Blood and body fluid exposure: sexual encounters, tattoos, piercings, injections including immunizations, intravenous (IV) drug use, and rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) (human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], HBV, hepatitis C virus [HCV], herpes simplex virus [HSV], syphilis, gonorrhea (gonococcus) / Chlamydia trachomatis [GC/CT]) | |
Fresh water activities: swimming, kayaking, rafting (schistosomiasis, leptospirosis) | |
Animal exposures (Q-fever, brucellosis, tularemia, anthrax, rabies, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever) | |
Safari (rickettsioses, African trypanosomiasis) |
*For epidemiology of specific diseases, please refer to websites of the WHO (World Health Organization) (http://www.who.int/topics/en/), or the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/info/index-eng.php), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/diseases.aspx).