Reference list

Coffee Break Reading

Here are some hand-picked articles I learned a lot from, reflected on, or simply enjoyed reading. I intend to keep adding to this so do come back and visit!

• Artificial intelligence? ChatGPT in travel medicine: A friend or foe?

• Single visit rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis: A literature review and Can a single visit rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis eliminate the need for rabies immunoglobulin in last minute travellers?

• Qdenga® - A promising dengue fever vaccine; can it be recommended to non-immune travelers?

• ANOTHER (3rd) Dengue vaccine in the pipeline

• Selfie deaths

• Carbon monoxide poisoning

• JE in Oz

• JE case in Bangor, North Wales

• Rabid kittens

• Cosmetic procedures abroad: what you need to know

• INTERESTING PODCAST recommended by a lovely delegate on a travel health course

• Mosquito borne diseases heading our way

• Run-in with a tiger

• Passed out on a plane and unresponsive - what’s the plan?

• UK threat of increase in VPD’s spread via mosquitos: climate change is happening...

• Surgery abroad - a cautionary tale

• Medical tourism- Surgery abroad costs more for the UK to rectify than the surgery itself?

• Multi-drug resistant gluteal abscesses due to Mycobacterium abscessus following medical tourism for cosmetic purposes to Mexico

• It's not all bad though when it comes to medical tourism. Done properly, it can be a fantastic choice!

• The Ready-To-Go Questionnaire predicts health outcomes during travel: a smartphone application-based analysis

• Malaria vaccine 2nd one- R21

• 1st person to die of Alaskapox

• FGM in Sierra Leone: 3 sad deaths

• Woman jailed for taking child to Kenya for multilation

• Wipe out malaria in a decade? Yes please!!

• Cholera scare on cruise ship

• Lassa - new treatments?

• Pilgrim deaths at Hajj. Immensely sad.

• Animal bites! Test yourself...

• A sad reminder why rabies vaccines and seeking treatment is so important.

• Tainted Ice cream! Grand Hyatt Hong Kong linked to 15 food poisoning cases involving tainted ice cream

• Lethal Spanish hamburgers!!! Suspected salmonella outbreak declared in Madrid: Two people are hospitalised and 15 others affected after eating contaminated truffle sauce at award-winning burger restaurant

• A risk assessment for James Bond: No time to die: An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents. I love things that are both informative AND hilarious.

• This was a revealing observational study published in TMAID in 2024, which really makes one think about the importance of rabies advice. It's a good read: Rabies knowledge gaps and risk behaviour in Dutch travellers: An observational cohort study

• Not travel health per se BUT always an interesting read for people who like learning about other cultures. Take a look at Derek Sivers' blogs for an interesting read.

• Methanol poisoning and local herbal brews during travel

• UKHSA blog: How we monitor invasive mosquitoes and stop them spreading in the UK

• Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Splash Pads — United States, 1997–2022

• ‘It’s a cowboy show out there’: the deadly lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry. A reminder again of the difficulties of finding the right treatments abroad.

• Fatal journeys: causes of death in international travellers in South America. A reminder to tailor advice to the demographic characteristics in the traveller.

• Travel Medicine in Primary Care: The Pre-Travel Consultation - this is an 8-minute podcast extract (from Nov 24)with two docs discussing what's not to be missed in a Travel health consult (or there's a transcript if you prefer).