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GeoSentinel Network Alarming Diagnosis List

Eligibility Criteria:  Any traveler, immigrant, or refugee, who has crossed international borders in the previous 1 year and where in the best clinical judgment of the GeoSentinel Network Member, the current illness was acquired as a function of that travel.

GeoSentinel Network Members should contact GeoSentinel with information on any traveler they see or have reasonable knowledge of, presenting with:

Any unusual diagnosis, unusual clinical manifestation of a usual diagnosis, or unusual geographic origin the Network Member thinks of interest to GeoSentinel
Falciparum malaria resistant to quinine, mefloquine, or atovaquone/proguanil
P. vivax, P. ovale, or P. malariae resistant to chloroquine
Enteric or other bacterial infection with unusual or rarely reported antibiotic resistance

OR any of the following diagnoses:

Anthrax (cutaneous or pulmonary)
Botulism
Chagas Disease, acute
Cholera
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever or Dengue Shock Syndrome
Ebola virus
Encephalitis (acute) of any etiology
Hemorrhagic fever, acute (syndrome) [suspected]
Influenza, Avian
Lassa Fever
Malaria, severe and complicated
MDR or XDR TB
Meningococcal meningitis
Rabies
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Smallpox
Trypanosomiasis, African (T. rhodesiense or T. gambiense)
Tularemia
Yellow Fever
Yersinia pestis, plague or pneumonic

How to Contact GeoSentinel:

Send an informal e-mail with a very brief description of the diagnosis and circumstances to a specified e-mail address.
 
OR
Fill out an On-line form and submit a very brief description of the diagnosis and circumstances.

GeoSentinel will contact the Network Member if further information required.

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Revised June 28, 2007