UK doctors increasingly likely to encounter tropical diseases, symposium told

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UK doctors increasingly likely to encounter tropical diseases, symposium told

Peter Moszynski

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Fewer than one in five British travellers to malarial regionstakes prophylactic drugs a London symposium heard last week.Peter Chiodini the director of the malaria reference laboratory,a division of the Health Protection Agency, which monitors importedcases of malaria, was speaking.

Speaking at the Royal Society of Medicine’s clinical updateconference on tropical and travel medicine, he said that thesingle most important piece of advice a doctor could give tosomeone planning to travel to tropical destinations was to takeappropriate precautions against malaria.

The latest figures from the agency show that more than 1500UK travellers contracted malaria in 2007, and five of them died.Fewer than half of travellers found to have malaria had presentedto doctors with fevers.

Introducing the symposium, John Scadding, dean of the society,said that the meeting was intended "to provide the specialistknowledge and skills necessary for general physicians . . . [Full text of this article]

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