Letter from the Editor (Summer 2009)
Once again I am extremely grateful to contributors to this edition. Travel health advisers continue to travel to exciting places. There's Hilary Simons' account of her time in Kenya, and Joyce Skeet celebrated a big birthday in China and shares her experiences.
The conference trail is also still being actively trod by travel health nurses and as I write we are about to head to Budapest for CISTM11, along with two forum members we have funded to attend. UK conferences are also important and two are reported on in this issue - our successful Malaria Day, a joint venture with BTHA, part of our special Focus on Malaria feature, and the Tick Alert Conference. Wendy Fox has personal experience of tick-borne disease and helps us understand more about the threats within the UK and abroad in her article.
As always, Newsround and Bulletin Board have snippets of information I hope you will find useful and don't miss the opportunity to apply for a funded place at our forum annual conference or NECTM in Hamburg.
Thank you to our generous sponsor GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health for their continued support for this publication over the last 10 years.