RT Book, Section A1 Rao, Suchitra A2 Bunik, Maya A2 Levin, Myron J. A2 Abzug, Mark J. A2 Schreiner, Teri L. SR Print(0) ID 1211989437 T1 Travel Medicine T2 Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 27th Edition YR 2025 FD 2025 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781265739898 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1211989437 RD 2025/03/24 AB Approximately 50%–70% of travelers become ill during their travel overseas. The number of children traveling with families continues to increase. Children who travel are especially susceptible to infectious diseases, trauma, and other health problems, which vary with the destination. Preparation for travel with children and infants includes consideration of destination-specific risks, underlying medical problems, and administration of both routine and travel-related vaccines. Pretravel counseling should ideally take place at least 1 month prior to travel, given the need to develop an effective immune response from any travel-associated vaccinations. The physician involved in pretravel counseling should focus on the issues listed in Table 45–1.