Key "cannot-miss" diagnoses associated with fever and travel

Diagnosis*	Distribution
Amebic liver abscess	Worldwide
Bartonellosis	Worldwide
Enteric fever	South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, South America
Legionnaires disease	Worldwide
Leptospirosis	Worldwide, with higher prevalence in warm climate
Malaria	Africa, Oceania, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central America, South America
Melioidosis	Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa; sporadic infections in Western Hemisphere
Meningococcal meningitis or sepsis	Worldwide
Plague	Foci worldwide
Relapsing fever, louse borne	Sub-Saharan Africa
Relapsing fever, tick borne	Worldwide, in discrete areas
Rickettsial infections, including spotted fever group rickettsioses and typhus fevers	Worldwide, involving different species
Staphylococcal and streptococcal sepsis	Worldwide
Trypanosomiasis, East African	East Africa
Tuberculosis (miliary; meningitis)	Worldwide
Tularemia	Worldwide
Viral hemorrhagic fevers	Multiple etiologies with specific distribution

Diseases listed in alphabetical order. Can be fatal and treatable with a specific intervention and/or diagnosis is critical because of public health and infection control implications.

* Specific therapy available for all diagnoses except for some viral hemorrhagic fevers.

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Key "cannot-miss" diagnoses associated with fever and travel