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Volume 354:1851 April 27, 2006 Number 17
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Illness in Returned Travelers

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by Freedman, D. O.
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To the Editor: Freedman et al. (Jan. 12 issue)1 has called attention to hazards for travelers. As the authors state, the study does not reflect the full epidemiology of travelers' diseases. There is a great danger that patients and practitioners who anticipate and strive to prevent the serious threats to health for travelers will mistakenly consider only infectious diseases. Physicians advising patients who are planning travel to tropical countries must warn them of the real burden of illness: premature death from injury.

In earlier studies of deaths of Americans overseas, some 10,000 deaths were analyzed according to cause, age, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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