TRAVELLERS’ DIARRHOEA
- Travellers’ diarrhoea is the most common illness affecting travellers
- It occurs in up to 60% of travellers
HEPATITIS A
- Hepatitis A is one of the most common travel-related vaccine preventable diseases and is endemic in many developing countries
- There are around 1.5 million cases of hepatitis A globally each year
HEPATITIS B
- One third of the global population – two billion people – have been infected with Hepatitis B5 It is one of the world’s most prevalent diseases
- An estimated 600,000 people die every year from the consequences of the disease
- It is 50-100 times more infectious than HIV
MALARIA
- Malaria kills an estimated one million people globally each year
- The UK is one of the biggest importers of malaria in Europe
- Between 1999-2008 on average 1,800 people every year returned to the UK with malaria
- Malaria is preventable, but can be fatal if left untreated
DENGUE FEVER
- There has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of the disease in the last 10 years with an estimated 50 million cases worldwide every year
RABIES
- More than 3 billion people are at risk of contracting rabies in at least 85 countries worldwide
- More than 55,000 people die of rabies each year, with around 95% of deaths occurring in Asia and Africa
- Once the signs and symptoms of rabies start to appear, there is no treatment and the disease is almost always fatal.
TYPHOID
- There are more than 21 million cases of typhoid globally each year, a high proportion of which occur in Asia, Africa and South America
- Each year an estimated 200,000 deaths occur globally from the disease
TUBERCULOSIS
- Every second someone somewhere in the world is infected with TB
- One third of the world’s population is infected with the disease
- About 1.6 million deaths occurred in 2005
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