Why is personal advice desirable in a travel medicine consultation?
In travel medicine, individual advice is required because travellers have different objectives and different medical problems may arise during a trip. Moreover, each traveller is different, a family with young children or a diabetic patient needs different recommendations compared to a business man planning to spend 48 hours at meetings in a luxury hotel in the capital city. 9. Vaccination against measles is now recommended for all travellers. Is this connected with the WHO goal of eradicating the disease? During the last two years, small outbreaks of measles have appeared in Switzerland and numerous children and adults have been hospitalized. For some people, this disease even led to encephalitis which is an inflammation of the brain and this unfortunately left some of these patients with permanent consequences. It has been shown that the measles viruses specifically analyzed in Switzerland primarily match foreign sub-types, which means that they were imported from Asia and respective
