Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infectious Diseases

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Asia east asia (general area)

• insect-borne diseases: see below
• water- and food-borne diseases: Hepatitis A, diarrheal diseases, oriental liver fluke (clonorchiasis), oriental lung fluke (paragonimiasis)
• other: Hepatitis B
• rabies

China

• malaria, visceral leishmaniasis, plague, typhus, poliomyelitis, trachoma, leptospirosis

Mongolia

• Korean hemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis, Dengue fever

Japan, Republic of Korea

• scrub typhus

Eastern South Asia (Southeast Asia)

• insect-borne diseases: malaria, filariasis, plague, Japanese encephalitis, Dengue fever, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, typhus
• water- and food-borne diseases: cholera, dysentery, amebic dysentery, typhoid fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E, giant intestinal fluke (fasciolopsiasis), paragonimiasis, melioidosis
• other: Hepatitis B, schistosomiasis, poliomyelitis
• rabies

Viet Nam

• plague, trachoma

Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand

• trachoma

Middle South Asia (Indian subcontinent)

• insect-borne diseases: malaria, filariasis, sandfly fever, visceral leishmaniasis, cutaneous leishmaniasis, relapsing fever, typhus, dengue fever, hemorrhagic fevers
• water- and food-borne diseases: cholera, typhoid fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E, intestinal worms (helminthic infections), brucellosis, echinococcosis
• other: Hepatitis B, poliomyelitis, trachoma,
• rabies

Islamic Republic of Iran

• giardiasis

India, Nepal

• meningococcal meningitis

Western South Asia (The Middle East)

• insect-borne diseases: cutaneous leishmaniasis, typhus, relapsing fever
• water- and food-borne diseases: typhoid fever, hepatitis A, tapeworm (taeniasis), brucellosis, echinococcosis
• other: hepatitis B, schistosomiasis

Northern Europe (general area)

• insect-borne diseases: rare occurrences of tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme disease, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
• water- and food-borne diseases: tapeworm, trichinellosis, fish tapeworm (diphyllobothriasis), liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica), Hepatitis A
• other: rabies

Siberia

• typhus

Russian Federation, Ukraine

• diphtheria, poliomyelitis