WHO International Travel and Health publication 2014 - available on line

The 2014 updates of the WHO International Travel and Health (ITH) publication are now available on line.

Updates have been made on vaccines, malaria risk, yellow fever risks and vaccine requirements.
The following chapters can be downloaded on line at: http://www.who.int/ith :
• Chapter 6 : Vaccine preventable diseases
• Chapter 7 : Malaria
• Country list : Yellow fever vaccination requirements and recommendation; malaria situation
• Annexes : Countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and countries requiring yellow fever vaccination

The ITH web site (www.who.int/ith) also features:
• updated and improved disease distribution maps
• latest updates for travellers
• country web links on travel and health: http://www.who.int/ith/links/national_links/en/index.html
• regional and  national web links for societies of travel and medicine http://www.who.int/ith/links/national_societies/en/index.html

• interactive map for selected diseases will be activated in the next few days :  http://www.who.int/ith/link/en/index.html as well as tabular format for yellow fever and malaria country requirements and information: https://extranet.who.int/ihrportal/report.aspx?id=65

The 2014 versions of ITH in French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian and Italian will be released later on. When available, links will be provided on the WHO's ITH Website.

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