Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 7, 2026

Avian Influenza Surveillance with FTA Cards: Field Methods, Biosafety, and Transportation Issues Solved
Published on: August 2, 2011
[Travel medicine]
1Institut de Médecine tropicale Prince Léopold, Anvers.
Abstract:
Intercontinental travel is a source of problems concerning health. This type of travel involves an increasing number of persons of different ages and conditions. It is increasingly frequent and reaches for destinations which are still more distant. The study of the prevention and of the treatment of these problems, which are not infectious in the highest number of cases, has led to the appearance of "Travel Medicine", which is increasingly being organised. A number of problems, which are hardly if at all studied in other disciplined, come under this heading.
Related Concept Videos
Transmission-based Precautions II: Airborne and Protective Environment
Airborne precautions:
Use airborne precautions when treating patients known or suspected to have diseases that spread through the air—for example, tuberculosis or measles. These organisms are present in smaller droplets expelled by an infected person and...
Transmission-based Precautions I: Contact, Enteric, and Droplets
Contact Precautions:
Contact precautions are the measures taken to prevent the transmission of infectious agents, especially epidemiologically important microorganisms such as MRSA or influenza, primarily transmitted through direct or indirect contact with an...
Methods of reducing fever
Pharmacological Methods of Reducing Fever:
Drugs Affecting GI Tract Motility: Antimicrobials as Antidiarrheal Agents
Pulmonary Tuberculosis V
Latent tuberculosis infection occurs when TB bacteria are present in a person's body, but are not causing illness or symptoms. It is not contagious, and preventive treatment is crucial to avoid the progression...
Infectious Diseases and Their Occurrence

