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Marsha F. Goldsmith

JAMA. 1998;279:569-571.

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TRAVEL IS broadening. Unfortunately, it may also be diarrhetic, emetic, toxic . . . that is to say, a vehicle for exposing the body to unfamiliar ills even as it opens up new vistas for the mind.

As people who live in the industrialized countries of the world make more forays for pleasure or business into global areas that are less developed, many physicians in the voyagers' homelands are finding their diagnostic acumen challenged by diseases that have disappeared from, or were never common in, the places where they practice.

Medical professionals in North America and Europe are also encountering patients who visit or migrate from their native countries, sometimes leaving behind everything but their endemic illnesses.

At the same time, people who spend their lives in places where parasitic and other exotic diseases flourish are becoming increasingly eager to see the discoveries of modern science translated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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