About CATMAT

At its 1988 meeting, the Advisory Committee on Epidemiology (ACE) expressed the need in Canada for rational, consistent and widely-disseminated guidelines for travel medicine and tropical medicine, and recommended the creation of an advisory committee for that purpose. The Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) was formed, and held its first meeting in February 1990.

CATMAT Statements & Recommendations

Arthropod Bites

• Statement on Personal Protective Measures to Prevent Arthropod Bites - Update (1 December 2005)

Cholera

• Statement on Neworal Cholera and Travellers' Diarrhea Vaccination (2005)

• Statement on Oral Cholera Vaccination (1998)

Cruise Ship Travel

• Statement on Cruise Ship Travel (2005)

Dengue Fever

• Travel Medicine Recommendation: Dengue Fever and International Fever (1996)

Diarrhea

• Statement On Persistent Diarrhea In The Returned Traveller (2006)
• Statement on Travellers' Diarrhea (2001)

Ethics

• Statement on Ethics and Travel (2003)

Evidence-based Medicine

• Guidelines about Evidence-Based Medicine (1994)

Fever

• Fever in the International Traveller: Initial Assessment Guidelines (1997)

Hepatitis

• Statement on Hepatitis Vaccines for Travellers (2008)

High Altitude Sickness

• Statement on high-altitude illnesses (2007)

HIV/AIDS

• Statement on Travellers and HIV/AIDS (1994)

Influenza

• Statement on Travel, Influenza, and Prevention (2005)

Japanese Encephalitis

• Statement on Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine (2008)

Jet Lag

• Travel Statement on Jet Lag (2003)

Malaria

• Canadian Recommendations for the Prevention and Treatment of Malaria Among International Travellers (2004)

Meningitis

• Statement on Meningococcal Vaccination for Travellers (1999)

Motion Sickness

• Statement on Motion Sickness (2003)

Polio

• Poliomyelitis Vaccination for International Travellers (2003)

Rabies

• Statement on Travellers and Rabies Vaccine (2002)

STDs

• Statement on travellers and Sexually Transmitted Infections (2006)

Travel Medicine

• The Immunocompromised Traveller (2007)
• Travel Medicine Resources for Canadian Practitioners (2006)
• Guidelines for the Practice of Travel Medicine (1999)

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)

• Statement on tick-borne encephalitis(2006)

Tuberculosis

• Statement on the Risk and Prevention of Tuberculosis in Travellers (1997)
• Statement on Tuberculosis Screening and the International Traveller (1996)

Typhoid

• Statement on Overseas Travellers and Typhoid (1994)

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