A "health information tool for international travel" the "Yellow Book" is considered by many to be the gold standard on travel information, and has been expanded to offer new information on scuba diving safety, high altitude travel, travelers with special needs, and traveling with children.
The Yellow Book also offers vaccination and medication information for disease risks by destination as well as helpful health hints for cruise ship travel, international adoptions, motion sickness and much more.
Additional new health topics in the book include:
- New recommendations for preventing malaria;
- Changes in vaccine recommendations for travelers;
- Changes in recommendations for insect repellent use;
- Expanded text motion sickness and travel-related injury, and;
- Improved maps and expanded indexing;
A companion Web site to the "Yellow Book" at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/contentYellowBook.aspx is also available. Travelers can look up specific information by travel destination and view or print custom reports based on individual travel plans. In fall 2003, a CD-Rom will be released with more information on travel destinations.
Travelers’ Health -- http://www.cdc.gov/travel/ -- is one of CDC’s most-visited web sites and is updated as new information becomes available.
