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Every two years the CDC updates and publishes their `Yellow Book’, a reference for those who advise international travelers about health risks. As international travel increases, so do the chances that travelers will contract and transport diseases from one area of the globe to another.
Which means that doctors just about anywhere in the world are faced with advising patients on how to avoid (or worse, must diagnose when they return) rarely seen or unusual diseases like Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue, and Cholera.While written primarily for Health Care providers, the Yellow Book is a tremendously valuable resource for all, and I confess I use it often as a reference for this blog. You find it chock full of maps, charts, and advice and information on everything from Amebiasis to Zika, and scores of infectious diseases in-between.
For those who will refer to it often, a hard copy is available from the Oxford University Press. You can also order a copy from online booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.But for casual users, or those on a budget, the full text of the the 2018 Yellow Book is now available online on the CDC's website. They describe what's new in this new edition:
About the Yellow Book
CDC's Yellow Book (Health Information for International Travel) is published every two years as a resource for health professionals providing care to international travelers. The fully revised and updated CDC Yellow Book 2020 compiles the US government’s most current travel health guidelines, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts.
The 2020 Yellow Book includes important travel medicine updates:
- Recommendations for providing travel health care remotely via telemedicine
- Discussion of legal issues facing clinicians providing travel health care
- Cutting-edge rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases
- Introduction of new FDA-approved antimalarial drugs
- Road traffic safety advice for travelers
- Recommendations for treating infectious diseases in the face of increasing antimicrobial resistance
Not to be out done, the FDA also publishes a less frequently updated `Bad Bug Book' (last updated in 2012) - which you can download as a PDF - more formally known as:
Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook
Download the Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition in PDF (2.6MB)
The Bad Bug Book 2nd Edition, released in 2012, provides current information about the major known agents that cause foodborne illness.
Each chapter in this book is about a pathogen—a bacterium, virus, or parasite—or a natural toxin that can contaminate food and cause illness. The book contains scientific and technical information about the major pathogens that cause these kinds of illnesses.
A separate “consumer box” in each chapter provides non-technical information, in everyday language. The boxes describe plainly what can make you sick and, more important, how to prevent it.
The information provided in this handbook is abbreviated and general in nature, and is intended for practical use. It is not intended to be a comprehensive scientific or clinical reference.
The Bad Bug Book is published by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
