Acute Respiratory Infections in a Recently Arrived Traveler to Your Part of the World*.

The article explores the respiratory infectious risks of commercial travel. There are specific respiratory diseases to take into account in a returning traveler, including tuberculosis, legionellosis, melioidosis, plague, tularemia, hantavirus infections, viral hemorrhagic fever, influenza, paragonimiasis, schistosomiasis, intestinal nematodes, histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, psittacosis and Q fever.