In This Section:

Welcome
Adoption
Refugees
Travel/Tropical Medicine
Useful Resources

Related Sites:

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Useful Resources

Patient Handouts

• Recommended Childhood Immunizations (AAP)
• Yellow Fever Vaccination Requirements
• Food and Water Precautions and Travelers' Diarrhea
• Cholera Information
• Dengue Fever
• Preventing Foodborne Illness: Escherichia coli
• Hepatitis A Vaccine & Immune Globulin (IG) Disease and Vaccine
• HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Malaria: General Information
• Malaria: Information for Pregnancy and Children
• Other Insect Diseases
• Preventing Typhoid Fever
• Yellow Fever and Disease and Vaccine Information

Research Activities

Research activities of the clinic include:

• Exposure to war and violence in refugee children
• Assessment of immunity to hepatitis A in individuals from developing countries
• Epidemiology of travel-related illness in urban multinational populations
• Immunity to vaccine- preventable diseases among refugees
• Response to vaccines in refugees

Internet Links

Refugee Health and Resettlement in Greater Boston

• Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights

Useful Internet Links-General

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention Website
• Summary of Health Information for International Travel
• NCID (National Center for Infectious Diseases) -- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• NCID Electronic Publications
• Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases Website
• Medscape Infectious Diseases Website

Travel Medicine Recommendations

DC Vaccine Recommendations for Traveler's Health-Care Provider
Information
CDC Home Travel Info
CDC Yellow Book 96-97
WHO Yellow Book
Johns Hopkins Travel Medicine
Health Canada Travel Medicine
France Recommendations
German Tropical Medicine Society
Denmark Recommendations
Italy Recommendations
UK 1997 Malaria Guidelines

Travel Warnings and Consular Information

U.S. State Department Advisories
UK Consular Information
Canada Advisory Reports
Australia Consular Sheets

Surveillance & Epidemiological Bulletins

WHO Weekly Epidemological Bulletins
CDC MMWR Weekly and Summaries
Eurosurveillance Weekly
Eurosurveillance Monthly
UK CDR Weekly
Canada Communicable Disease Report
Australia Communicable Diseases
French Weekly Surveillance Bulletin
Netherlands Surveillance Bulletin
Italy Bulletin
South Ireland Bulletin
Portuguese Bulletin
Robert Koch Institute Bulletin
Statens Serum Institute Bulletin
Sentiweb Report
Hong Kong Bulletin
Japan Bulletin
U.S. Millitary Surveillance

For more information, please contact:
Clinic Coordinator: 617-414-5671
Nurse Coordinator: 617-414-7455
International Clinic
Boston Medical Center
Dowling - Ground Floor
818 Harrison Ave.
Boston MA 02118