What are the moral obligations of the traveller in relation to vaccination?

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 90-96

  Dawson, Angus ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Moral obligations; Travel; Vaccinations

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOETHICS; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE CARRIER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEPATITIS B; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MORALITY; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 33846826803     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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