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The borders are open and many Australians are making the most of it by heading overseas. Over 5 million Australians go overseas on holiday each year, are your patients amongst them?
Common travel-related diseases
Approximately half of all Australians traveling overseas visit travel destinations that can pose travel-related disease risks. [1]
Typhoid fever, hepatitis A and B, yellow fever, rabies, and malaria are common serious infectious diseases that can pose a threat to unwary travellers. [3]
How can you help patients hit the ground running?
Your patients may not always know that they require travel health advice. You can play a part in improving travel health outcomes by proactively discussing upcoming travel plans with your patients and making a travel health plan that includes travel and routine immunisations. [4]
Each trip and traveller is unique and so is their risk of exposure to travel-related disease. Development of an illness whilst traveling can be influenced by many factors including [5] :
- Length of time before departure
- Previous health problems whilst travelling and current health
- Destinations, itinerary and length of stay
- Purpose of travel
- Food and water sources
- Type of accommodation
Where are Australians heading abroad?
Popular travel destinations this year include India (89,530), Fiji (65,710), Thailand (30,320), Pakistan (18,000). Locations such as Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam also saw a spike in travellers in April. [2]
Useful Travel health resources for you and your patients from
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References: [1] Australian Government Austrade. Outbound Tourism Statistics, Available at: https://www.tra.gov.au/reasearch/australians-travelling-overseas/outbound-tourism-statistics (accessed 29/03/2022). [2] Australian Bureau of Statistics, Overseas Arrivals and Departures – Australia, Available at: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-transport/overseas-arrivals-and-departures-australia (accessed 08/07/2022). [3] Smarttraveller.gov.au, Infectious Diseases, Australia, Available at: https://www. smartraveller.gov.au/before-you-go/health/diseases (accessed 08/07/2022). [4] Lyons A. Before they go. Good Practice 2016;7:14-16. Available at: https://www.racgp.org.au/download/Documents/Good%20Practice/2016/July/GP2016July-Travel-Medicine.pdf (accessed June 2022). [5] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book. Introduction to Travel Heath & the CDC Yellow Book. Available at: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2020/introduction/introduction-to-travel-health-and-the-cdc-yellow-book (accessed 08/07/2022).