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Travellers' diseases can be acquired in a wide variety of ways. Common routes of acquisition include:
- contact with respratory secretions, carried through the air, on hands, or objects
- ingestion, or contact with contaminated food or water
- sexual contact, especially unprotected by condoms
- exposure to insects that carry disease, especially msoquitos
- close exposure to infected animals and physical contact with animal hides
- contact with contaminated soil or sand
- needle sharing
For a list of common travellers' diseases, visit this CDC web site.
Last Review Date: August 14, 2017