Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases

1 min

Library·Infectious Diseases

Travel medicine

Pre-travel consult Vaccines, prophylaxis, kit, what to ask. Returning traveller Fever workup, when to think malaria or dengue. Travellers' diarrhoea Self-treatment kit, when antibiotics help, ORS. Malaria Risk by region, prophylaxis options, returned-traveller fever. Insect bite prevention DEET, picaridin, nets, dengue and chikungunya context. Altitude illness AMS, HACE, HAPE, prophylaxis options. Fit to fly Cardiac, respiratory, recent surgery, pregnancy.

Vaccines

NZ immunisation schedule Childhood, adolescent, pregnancy, adult catch-up. Adult vaccines Influenza, COVID, shingles, pneumococcal, RSV. Vaccine hesitancy Conversation strategies that work, what to send people away with.

Specific infections

COVID-19 Acute care in NZ, antivirals, long COVID handover. Shingles Antiviral window, post-herpetic neuralgia, Shingrix.