Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 126-133, May 2003

Country profile: travelling to Australia☆

  • Marc M.T Shaw

      Affiliations

    • Worldwise Travellers Health and Vaccination Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
    • ,
  • Peter A Leggat

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61-7-4781-6108; fax: +61-7-4781-5254

Received 4 November 2002; received in revised form 4 February 2003; accepted 6 February 2003.

Abstract 

Australia has a well-developed tourism industry and health care system. Despite the precautions recommended in this paper, Australia has been virtually free of local outbreaks of life threatening tropical diseases in recent decades. This paper focuses on health and safety issues for travellers to Australia, especially the special precautions for those travelling to more rural and remote areas in outback Australia. Travellers to Australia should be advised that, in general, Australia is a relatively safe country in which to travel, and it has high standards of health and hygiene.

Keywords:  Australia, Outback, Bites and stings, Infectious diseases, Travel health advice

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☆ Disclaimer: the authors do not necessarily represent the views of any of the agencies or organisations referred to in this paper. The authors had no financial or other conflicts of interest to disclose.

PII: S1477-8939(03)00020-6

doi:10.1016/S1477-8939(03)00020-6

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 1, Issue 2 , Pages 126-133, May 2003

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