A sample of the new enhanced content for the Travel tab, was provided on ProMED related to an outbreak of Measles in New Mexico:

Travel and measles
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1982 - An outbreak (7 cases) among patients in a pediatrician’s office in the United States was related to an imported case from Korea.
1998 - An outbreak (69 cases, 2 hospitalized, 0 fatal) in Tuvalu was ascribed to introduced cases among workers from Nauru.
1998 - An outbreak (33 cases) was linked to an infected visitor arriving in Alaska, United States, from Japan.
1999 - An outbreak (75 confirmed cases) in Australia was traced to an index case from Indonesia.
2000 - Outbreaks (78 cases, total) in Canada were linked to travel in Mexico (6 cases), Bolivia (19 cases), and Belgium (25 cases).
2000 - An outbreak (992 cases, or 57 percent of all cases for the Americas region) in Haiti was thought to have originated with imported cases from the Dominican Republic.
2000 to 2001 - An outbreak (1062 cases, 0 fatal) was reported in Tanzania among refugees from Burundi.
2001 - An outbreak (37 cases) in Venezuela was ascribed to a case imported from Europe.
2001 - An outbreak (14 cases) in the United States was reported among internationally adopted children.
2002 - An outbreak (1334 suspect cases; 128 confirmed) in Colombia was traced to index patients who had acquired the disease in Venezuela.
2002 - An outbreak (13 cases) in the United States resulted from a case imported from the Philippines.
2002 - An outbreak (6380 suspect cases; 2397 confirmed) in Venezuela was traced to measles imported from Europe.
2003 - An outbreak (107 cases) in an unvaccinated religious community in Israel followed introduction of an index patient from Switzerland.
2003 - An outbreak (22 cases) was reported in Mexico following importation of measles from either Japan or Korea.
2004 - An outbreak (59 cases) was reported in Mexico following importation of an index case from Asia.
2004 - 10 confirmed cases were identified among Chinese children (from Hunan) arriving in the United States, and 3 Chinese children arriving to Norway.
2005 - An outbreak (34 cases) in the United States was related to an index case who contracted measles in Romania.
2005 to 2006 - An outbreak (27 cases) in Mexico was related to index cases who had worked at an international airport.
2006 - An outbreak (7 cases) in Australia was related to an imported index case.
2006 - An outbreak (15 cases) in an office building in the United States was associated with an index case, which had arrived from India.
2006 - An outbreak (3 cases) was reported among members of an adoption group returning to the United States from China.
2006 - An outbreak (44 cases) in Venezuela was ascribed to an index case arriving from Spain.
2006 to 2007 - An outbreak (213 cases) in Spain followed importation of a case from Eastern Europe.

ProMED published another note from GIDEON related to Salmonellosis in Germany. Here’s an abstract:

Salmonellosis accounts for 14 percent of all reported infectious disease and 98 percent of all zoonoses in Germany. 55 percent of infections are acquired from meat and poultry.

Recent incidence data are displayed at and are contrasted with those of the United States at

Traditionally GIDEON has been used by Travel Medicine practitioners, who have loved the detailed country information for the various diseases affecting travelers. Their main suggestion was to add more pre-travel information that could be provided to travelers at consultations. We’re happy to announce that we listened and have now launched a new Travel tab in the Epidemiology module.

The general pre-travel information is provided by region and is divided into Professional and Traveler sections. Professional is for health practitioners and is based on content from the CDC Yellow book. Links are provided directly to relevant disease information in GIDEON. Traveler is traveler friendly content from the CDC Traveler’s health destination guide. Links are provided to additional information from the CDC.
The Country section displays the list of all the relevant diseases that have additional information for travelers to the selected country. The content is presented briefly as a “mouse over” and can be accessed more thoroughly by linking to actual country note for the specific disease.

As with all the information in GIDEON, you can print and email each section information. This will be very useful to serve your travelers that want a hard copy of the information or a soft copy via email.

“Traveling with GIDEON” (video) is a new case of the month that provides examples of how to use the Travel tab.

Diagnosing a patient has just become easier with our latest feature, symptom images. As you mouse over any of the symptoms in the Diagnosis module, the signs and symptom description will display a representative photo or image. This will provide an additional visual differentiation of similar symptoms, further enhancing GIDEON diagnosis. See the example of the description of Jaundice to the left.