Table 1.
Exposure and activity carried out.
| Contact with fresh water | Schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, free-living amebiasis |
| Direct contact with land (walking barefoot) | Ancylostomiasis, strongyloidiasis, cutaneous larva migrans, tungiasis |
| Contact with animals | Rabies, tularemia, Q-fever, anthrax, viral haemorrhagic fevers, plague, brucellosis |
| Dairy consumption | Brucellosis, tuberculosis, shigellosis |
| Untreated water consumption | Amebiasis, ulcer, hepatitis A and E, typhoid fever, shigellosis, cryptosporidiasis, cyclosporiasis, giardiasis |
| Consumption of raw or undercooked foods | Hepatitis A, bacterial enteric infections, trichinosis, amebiasis, toxoplasmosis, cestodiasis, hepatic dystomatosis |
| High-risk sexual contact | HIV, hepatitis A, B and C, herpes, gonorrhoea, syphilis, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus |
| Caves | Histoplasmosis, rabies |
| Contact with ill-patients | Tuberculosis, meningitis, influenza, MERS-CoV, HF (Ebola, Crimean-Congo, Lassa) |
| Exposure to arthropods | |
| Mosquitoes | Malaria, dengue, yellow fever, other arboviriasis, filariasis |
| Ticks | Rickettsiosis, borreliosis, Q-fever, tularemia, encephalitis, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever |
| Flies | African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, bartonellosis |
| Fleas | Murine typhus, plague |
| Lice | Exanthematic typhus, relapsing fever |
| Mites | Shrub typhus |