%0 Journal Article
%T Rare and Imported Infections: Are We Prepared?
%A Godwin Oligbu
%J Archive of "Pharmacy: Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice".
%D 2019
%R 10.3390/pharmacy7010009
%X The worldĄŻs population is rapidly expanding. The current population of 7.7 billion is projected to increase by 1 billion over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050 according to the United Nations report. However, the global population is shrinking into a global village due to increasing intercontinental travel. International tourism has become one of the fastest growing sectors and most profitable sectors in the global economy through continuous expansion, diversification, and travellers increasingly pursuing new destinations, which often include remote areas of the world. In 2016, it was estimated that the number of trips constituting global international travel has risen to 1.2 trillion from 903 million in 2007, and compared to 25 million trips in 1950. A large proportion (i.e., 46%) of destinations include subtropical and tropical regions and an increase of 5% per year is predicted in travel to the Middle East, East Asia, and Africa [1]. For example, from 1987¨C2007, travel to the UK from all over the world was estimated to have been doubled from 16 million to 32 million visits. Among these, 4.5 million visits were from regions outside North America or Europe, and by 2016, over 19 million visitors stayed overnight in London [2]. Young children constitute 4% of overseas travellers, but make up nearly a quarter of all travel-associated admissions [3]. Considering the number of visits from UK residents, there was 65.7 million visits abroad in 2015 alone [1]. The number of visits to tropical countries has been increasing since 1996 at an average rate of 8% per annum [1], resulting in a global economic contribution of 7.6 trillion U.S dollars in 2016 [3]. With the current pattern of international travel, it is therefore estimated that over 280 million households globally will make at least one international trip per year by 2025 [4]
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473658/