Traveler's guide to avoiding infectious diseases

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Infectious diseases and travelers

Malaria

Argentina

• Malaria, cutaneous leishmaniasis, cholera, Hepatitis A, rabies

Chile

• Cholera

East Asia (general area)

• Insect-borne diseases: see below
• Water- and food-borne diseases: Hepatitis A, diarrheal diseases, oriental liver fluke (clonorchiasis), oriental lung fluke (paragonimiasis)
• Other: Hepatitis B
• Rabies

China

• malaria, visceral leishmaniasis, plague, typhus, trachoma, leptospirosis

Mongolia

• Korean hemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis, Dengue fever

Japan, Republic of Korea

• Scrub typhus

Southeast Asia

• Insect-borne diseases: malaria, filariasis, plague, Japanese encephalitis, Dengue fever, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, typhus
• Water- and food-borne diseases: cholera, dysentery, amebic dysentery, typhoid fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E, giant intestinal fluke (fasciolopsiasis), paragonimiasis, melioidosis
• Other: Hepatitis B, schistosomiasis
• Rabies

Vietnam

• Plague, trachoma

Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand

• Trachoma

Indian subcontinent

• Insect-borne diseases: malaria, filariasis, sandfly fever, visceral leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis, relapsing fever, typhus, dengue fever, hemorrhagic fevers
• Water- and food-borne diseases: cholera, typhoid fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E, intestinal worms (helminthic infections), brucellosis, echinococcosis
• Other: Hepatitis B, poliomyelitis, trachoma,
• Rabies

Islamic Republic of Iran

• Giardiasis

India, Nepal

• Meningococcal meningitis

The Middle East

• Insect-borne diseases: cutaneous leishmaniasis, typhus, relapsing fever
• Water- and food-borne diseases: typhoid fever, hepatitis A, tapeworm (taeniasis), brucellosis, echinococcosis
• Other: hepatitis B, schistosomiasis

Northern Europe (general area)

• Insect-borne diseases: rare occurrences of tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme disease, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
• Water- and food-borne diseases: tapeworm, trichinellosis, fish tapeworm (diphyllobothriasis), liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica), Hepatitis A
• Other: rabies

Siberia

• Typhus

Russian Federation, Ukraine

• diphtheria

Southern Europe (general area)