The advice above refers to diseases that can be prevented with vaccines only. There is a whole range of diseases which cannot be vaccinated against eg dengue fever. This is not listed in the Vaccination Chart for each country but pharmacists should make travellers aware that there are other diseases.
Numark Information Services provides up to date information for travellers going to countries where non-vaccine preventable diseases are reported to be prevalent. The advice provided will include how to prevent diseases as appropriate.
Some examples include:
- African Tick Bite Fever
- Amoebiasis
- Chikungunya
- Crimean-Congo Fever
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Dengue Fever
- Filariasis
- Food Borne Trematodes
- Giardiasis
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis E
- Legionnaires
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme Disease
- Nipah Virus
- Onchocerciasis
- Salmonellosis
- Sarcocystosis
- SARS
- Schistosomiasis
- Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections
- Shigellosis
- Tapeworm Infection
- Trypanosomiasis-African
- Trypanosomiasis-American
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fever
- West Nile Fever
- Zika Virus Infection