Travel sickness overview

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From a medical point of view, traveling is not always a pure pleasure. The inconvenience begins with travel sickness (kinetosis) and ends with serious travel illnesses such as cholera or malaria. Such dangers threaten especially when traveling to exotic countries. So if you are planning a trip to the pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or Chile, you should get medical advice. In advance you can find out here about the spread and prevention of the most important travel and tropical diseases!

illness	Major spread	prevention
Schistosomiasis	tropical-subtropical areas in Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East	Do not bathe, dive, water-ski or drink in stagnant water
Boutonneuse fever (Mediterranean tick spotted fever)	Mediterranean, East and East Africa, India	Tick ​​protection
Brucellosis (Malta fever and Bang's disease)	Malta fever: Mediterranean, Africa, Latin America; Bang disease: tropics, temperate zone	Avoid direct contact with cattle, goats and pigs and avoid unpasteurized dairy products
Chagas disease	Mexico, Central and South America	Protection against predatory bugs
Chikungunya fever	South and Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America (also South Europe, especially Italy)	Mosquito repellent
Chinese liver fluke (clonorchiasis)	Asia; related species also in Eastern Europe	Avoid raw, salted, smoked, dried and half-cooked fish
cholera	South America, South Asia, Africa	Cholera vaccination; use only boiled water and cooked / fried food; Hygiene (hands !!)
Dengue fever	SE Asia, Caribbean, Africa, Latin America	Mosquito repellent
Ebola fever	Africa, Phillippines	Avoid close contact with the sick and their body fluids
Typhus	temperate zone worldwide	Lice control; Improvement of hygienic conditions; no vaccination possible
River blindness (onchocerciasis)	W and Z Africa, Central and South America	Mosquito repellent
Yellow fever	tropical Africa, Central and South America	Vaccination, mosquito repellent
Giardiasis (Lambliasis)	Worldwide, especially India, Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Italy	Pay attention to food hygiene, drinks / water only boiled or from sealed bottles
Hookworm disease and skin mole	Worldwide, especially tropics and subtropics	do not go barefoot or lay in the sand
Hemorrhagic fever	Tropics and subtropics	only yellow fever vaccination available; for other haemorrhagic fevers only exposure prophylaxis
Japanese encephalitis	temperate and tropical zone in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Papua, New Guinea and N-Australia	Vaccination; Mosquito repellent
Kala-Azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis)	Above all Asia, Africa, Central and South America, but also southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean area	Mosquito repellent, especially after sunset
Lassa fever	W-Africa	Protect food from rats (vectors)
Legionnaires 'disease (legionnaires' disease)	worldwide, but especially in warmer countries	Regularly clean air conditioners, inhalers, shower heads, whirlpools
Leprosy	tropical-subtropical areas in Asia, Africa and S-America	mostly no risk of infection for travelers
Loa loa (Loiasis)	Tropical rainforests in W and Z Africa	Mosquito repellent
Lymphatic filariasis	tropical areas in Africa, Asia and Latin America, India	Mosquito repellent
malaria	depending on the pathogen: temperate zone, tropics or subtropics	Mosquito repellent; Chemoprohylaxis
Marburg fever	Africa	Avoid close contact with the sick and their body fluids
Anthrax (anthrax)	especially in warmer regions with intensive livestock farming	Avoid contact with (infected) pets and farm animals; Vaccination for people at risk only
Oriental bump (cutaneous leishmaniasis)	Tropical-subtropical areas in Asia, Africa, Arabia, Central and South America, Southern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean	Mosquito repellent
pest	especially Africa, but also Asia and America	Avoid contact with rodents; avoid long stays and overnight stays in slums; Chemoprophylaxis for people at risk
Phlebotomus fever (sand fly fever)	worldwide, esp. Mediterranean, Asia, S-America, Middle East, Southern Europe	Mosquito repellent
Relapsing fever	subtropical and tropical areas, N-Africa, Asia, Middle East, S-America, gel. Southern Europe	Protection against clothes lice and ticks (carriers): Avoid staying in poor hygienic conditions
Sleeping sickness	tropical africa	Mosquito repellent
Sindbis fever	Scandinavia, Russia, Karelia, Africa, Asia, Australia	Mosquito repellent
Roundworm infestation (Ascariasis)	worldwide, especially in regions with poor hygiene standards	Pay attention to hygiene (hands !!), only use boiled water and cooked / fried food
typhus	Especially in warm countries with poor hygiene standards, especially Africa, S-America, Southeast Asia	Vaccination, which does not offer complete protection - pay attention to hygiene!
West Nile fever	S-Europe, South of France, Africa, Middle East, Asia, N-America, Canada	Mosquito repellent, especially in the evening and at night

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