Travel Related Infection

Question 1

name some diseases common worldwide

Answer 1

influenza
community acquired pneumonia
STD

Question 2

name climate or environment changes

Answer 2

sunburn
heat exhaustion 
cold injury
altitude sickness
ear infections

Question 3

disease controllable by public health

Answer 3

sanitation- travellers diarrhoea. typhoid, cholera
immunisation
education- HIV, STD

Question 4

name water related infections

Answer 4

schistomiasis
leptospirosis
hookworms

Question 5

name arthropod vectors

Answer 5

malaria
dengue feverLeishmaniasis (sand flies: Kala-azar)
Trypanosomiasis (tsetse fly: sleeping sickness)
Filariasis (mosquitoes: elephantiasis)
Onchocerciasis (black flies: River Blindness)

Question 6

name viral haemorrhage fevers

Answer 6

yellow fever
dengue fever
Ebola fever

Question 7

name symptoms of malaria

Answer 7

fever, aches, malaise, mild jaundice

Question 8

name complications of malaria

Answer 8

cerebral malaria-encephalopathy
blackwater fever
pulmonary oedema

Question 9

how do you diagnose malaria

Answer 9

thick and thin blood films

Question 10

what is complicated malaria

Answer 10

malaria plus:
hyoglyceamia
impaired consciousness
pul oedema

Question 11

treatment for uncomplicated malaria

Answer 11

riamet 3 days
malarone 3 days
quinine 7 days and doxycycline

Question 12

treatment for complicated malaria

Answer 12

IV quinine plus oral doxycycline

Question 13

describe typhoid fever

Answer 13

due to poor sanitation
high fever
treat with ciprofloxacin/azithromycin

Question 14

describe dengue fever

Answer 14

viral infection spread by mosquitos
sudden fever, headache, macular rash
treatment is supportive

Question 15

describe schistomiasis

Answer 15

swimming in contained water
starts as swimmers itch
ova in stools
treatment is praziquantel

Question 16

approaches to fever in returning traveller

Answer 16

causes 
history 
signs 
precautions 
incubation periods 
rash-typhoid or dengue 
empirical treatment until diagnosis