Peer Reviewed
Travel medicine update

Travel medicine conference highlights

Jonathan Cohen
Abstract
Highlights from the 8th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine, including discussions on malaria, rabies, cholera and travellers’ diarrhoea.
Key Points

    The 8th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (CISTM8), attended by over 2000 delegates, was held in New York City on 7 to 11 May 2003. The ‘Big Apple’, a past major port of entry to the USA for millions of immigrants and refugees and now visited by millions of tourists and business people, provided an appropriate setting for a travel medicine conference as a symbol of today’s ‘global mobility’.

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