Nonetheless all contribute to the global circulation and potential spread of known or emerging pathogens. Perception of risk, behaviour, exposure to risks and access to health services vary enormously. With the increasing mobility of populations, whether migrants, tourists, businessmen, students, soldiers, humanitarian workers, pilgrims, refugees or medical tourists, it is becoming evident that the diversification of globally mobile travelers is posing new challenges to the travel medicine community. Most of travel medicine concentrates on tourists from North America and Europe leaving for international destinations, many being low or middle income countries involving a higher risk of acquiring infectious diseases. Travel medicine has emerged as a new field of medicine, moving to an evidence based body of knowledge concerning risk assessment and measures to protect the health of travellers. Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland The Challenges of Travel Medicine in the 21st Century
International Journal of Infectious Diseases (2010) 14S1, e2-e478ġ4th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) Abstracts
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