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1 Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) April 2008 Pierre J. Plourde, M.D., FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Medical Director, Travel Health and Tropical Medicine Program, WRHA Medical Consultant, Journeys Travel Health Clinic Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology (Clinical Parasitology), University of Manitoba

2 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada CATMAT reports to... Public Health Agency of Canada, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Assistant Deputy Minister, Migration and International Health, Travel Health Program

3 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Mandate u provides recommendations on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and other health hazards for Canadian travellers; u suggests mechanisms for wide dissemination and use of recommendations and other travel medicine-related information; and u advises on priorities for epidemiological research and other activities related to travel or tropical medicine.

4 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Structure u 10 members (4-year terms): Canadian expertise in travel medicine, tropical medicine, parasitology, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology u liaison members: CPS, CPHA, CSIH, AMMI Canada (formerly CIDS), NACI, IDRC, CAEP u ex-officio members: HC, DND, CIC, DFA, US CDC

5 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Summary: u Future statements/guidelines u Yellow fever Update u CDC Update u Travel Health in the Canadian Health Care System

6 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Upcoming Published Statements: 2007/2008  High altitude (April 2007)  Immunocompromised hosts (April 2007)  Hepatitis (in press)  Japanese encephalitis (final edits)  Malaria guidelines (final edits)

7 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Future Updated Statements: 2008/2009  Tuberculosis  Typhoid  Dengue fever  Guidelines for TM practice  Meningococcal meningitis  Fever in the International Traveller

8 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Future New Statements: 2009  Yellow fever  Long term traveller  International adoption  Elderly travellers  Pregnancy and travel  Pediatric traveller  Accidents and injuries  VFRs

9 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Yellow fever Update: u Case Report (Calgary):  5 week old male born March 2007 (normal delivery) presented with 2 wk history of URTI and fever for 2 days, “seizure activity” for 1 day  Admitted and treated with antibiotics, acyclovir, and anti-seizure medications  Dx: encephalitis  Normal CT head, CSF negative PCR  Baby completely recovered  Arboviral serology positive (Yf 1:5120 IgM!!)

10 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Yellow fever Update: u Case Report (Calgary):  Arboviral serology positive (Yf 1:5120 IgM!!)  Mother had travelled to Caracas, Venezuela for 7 days, when baby was 13 days old  Mother had received yellow fever vaccine when baby was 10 days old (no need for vaccine!)  Baby was breastfed only; no rural travel  Was baby infected with endemic yellow fever (no evidence of current outbreak) or was baby infected with vaccine strain via breast milk (has never been documented)?

11 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada CDC Update: u Interactive “live” malaria maps online

12 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Travel Health in the Canadian Health Care System:

13 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Travel Health in the Canadian Health Care System: u ~2,000,000 Canadian travellers to developing countries u 20% VFRs; “voluntourism” u 75% travellers develop travel-related illness (GI, dengue, malaria, typhoid) u But true cost of travel-related illness in Canada unknown

14 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Travel Health in the Canadian Health Care System: u <15% travellers visit travel clinic u Primary care practitioners often provide incorrect advise*:  37% accuracy for immunizations (vs 76% THNs)  69% accuracy for antimalarials (vs 78% for THNs) * Keystone JS, et al. J Travel Med 1994;1:72-78

15 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Travel Health in the Canadian Health Care System: u “Why don’t provincial health care plans cover travel medicine?” u “if one can afford to travel, one can afford to pay” u ?VFRs, students, missionaries, altruistic volunteers

16 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Travel Health in the Canadian Health Care System: u Covering cost of pre-travel consultation fees – encourage travellers to seek advice from the right places u Correct the misconception that travel medicine is a “luxury item”

17 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

18 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

19 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

20 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

21 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

22 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

23 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Haiti

24 Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Contacts… www.travelhealth.gc.ca www.catmat.gc.ca

25 Public Health Agency of Canada Agence de santé Publique du Canada Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) April 2008 Pierre J. Plourde, M.D., FRCPC Medical Officer of Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Medical Director, Travel Health and Tropical Medicine Program, WRHA Medical Consultant, Journeys Travel Health Clinic Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba

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