Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infectious Diseases

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Africa

Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia)

• insect-borne diseases: insect-borne diseases in this area are uncommon, but these may be encountered: leishmaniasis, malaria, relapsing fever, Rifte Valley fever typhus, sandfly fever, West Nile fever
• water and food-borne diseases: dysentery (many organisms), cholera, Hepatitis A, typhoid fever, giardiasis, brucellosis, echinococcoisis, intestinal worms (helminthic infections), polio
• rabies

Nile delta

• filariasis, schistosomiasis

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

• plague

Sub-Saharan Africa

• insect-borne diseases: insect-borne diseases in this area are very common: malaria, filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), relapsing fever, typhus, plague, yellow fever, hemorrhagic fevers (such as Dengue hemorrhagic fever, etc.)
• water- and food-borne diseases: intestinal worms (helminthic infection), dysentery, giardiasis, typhoid fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E, cholera, dracunculiasis, echinococcosis, poliomyelitis
• other: Hepatitis B, trachoma, Lassa fever, Ebola fever, Margburg fever, meningococcal meningitis

Southern Africa

• insect-borne diseases: malaria, plague, relapsing fever, Rift Balley fever, tick-bite fever, typhus
• water- and food-borne diseases: amebiasis, typhoid fever
• other: Hepatitis B, rabies

Botswana, Namibia

• sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), schistosomiasis

South Africa, Swaziland

• schistosomiasis