Despite the news that immunisations will be leaving the new GP contract in Scotland, nurses working in general practice (GPN) throughout the UK are continuing to see travellers before travel to advise and immunise. This article will discuss five of the diseases which will pose some of the biggest problems for our travellers during 2018.
Yellow Fever
Yellow fever is an arbo-virus spread by infected day-biting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Found across Sub-Saharan Africa and South America it has the potential to cause major outbreaks as seen in Angola (2016), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (2017) and most recently in Brazil.1 Following the increase in cases and spread of disease towards the Brazilian coast, the recommendation relating to vaccine has been revised to include areas where vaccine was not formerly indicated.
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