Health Advice and Immunizations for Travelers

Updated on a regular basis, this e-book contains practical advice for all international travelers! It has up-to-date advice on all important topics for travel including: immunizations, immunization reference chart, costs of vaccines and prescriptions, routine travel advice on water purification and foods to avoid, decreasing arthropod exposure, pediatric travel information, anti-malarial medications, prescription needs for traveler's diarrhea, medications for prophylaxis, medications for gastroenteritis, management of common problems like jet-lag, health insurance coverage, travel kit information, altitude sickness, travel advice for the pregnant female, and other useful information for your trip.

Updated on a regular basis, this e-book contains practical advice for all international travelers! It has up-to-date advice on all important topics for travel including: immunizations, immunization reference chart, costs of vaccines and prescriptions, routine travel advice on water purification and foods to avoid, decreasing arthropod exposure, pediatric travel information, anti-malarial medications, prescription needs for traveler's diarrhea, medications for prophylaxis, medications for gastroenteritis, management of common problems like jet-lag, health insurance coverage, travel kit information, altitude sickness, travel advice for the pregnant female, and other useful information for your trip.

Dr. Gullberg has worked as a physician in Haiti, India, Africa (the Congo), Dominican Republic, and Honduras. Because of the wealth of his experience, he knows a lot about travel medicine and has run an International Travel Clinic for three decades, where he has personally advised well over 5000 patients. Robert M. Gullberg M.D., F.A.C.P., grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois. He was educated at Northwestern University with an undergraduate degree in inorganic Chemistry. He then attended the University of Illinois Medical School and graduated in 1981. He did his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Evanston Hospital, then affiliated with Northwestern University Medical School. He had excellent training there under the tutorege of Dr. Steven Kurtides, Chief of Medicine. That was followed by a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois where he was mentored by Dr. John Phair. He has practiced Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in a Community Hospital Health System for almost three decades. During that time, he has trained hundreds of medical students, PA students, and nursing students of all levels. He is a seasoned lecturer in clinical areas of Clinical Infectious Diseases, and he continues to teach principles of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases on a daily basis.