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Posts in category Travel Medicine

What Happened to Zika?

Aug 31, 2018 ~ Author Barbara Kozminski
Mosquito

A few years back, Zika caught a wave of attention during the epidemic in Central and South Americas. Although usually causing relatively mild disease in most patients, the virus is linked with devastating microcephaly in babies born to mothers actively infected by the virus. In the last two years, the disease dropped out of the […]

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Posted in Infectious Disease

The SMA Barefoot Doctor Course

Sep 07, 2017 ~ Author Michael A. Allen. M. Phil, ASM, SMA, WFR
Become a barefoot doctor

The Surfers Medical Association offers a class called, “The Barefoot Doctor”. The class is deeply rooted in teaching Surfer’s Wilderness First-Aid. The class is open to all, particularly those without any formal medical training. The class is held on a single day at a beach location that allows both land and water training, and lasts […]

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Terry Farrell Interview

Sep 07, 2017 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
Another day at the office…Terry at Cloudbreak, Fiji.

While much of our readership has a keen interest in surfing medicine, there are only a handful of us who actually get paid to travel the globe taking care of injured surfers. SMA’s own Terry Farrell, D.O., is one of the lucky few, and SM caught up with him this summer, just as he was […]

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Should you Frika about Zika?

Aug 29, 2016 ~ Author Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP, FAWM

There has been much hysteria in the news recently about the rapid spread of the Zika virus disease (ZVD). Awareness has been heightened by the 2016 summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, where the epidemic is widespread and a number of athletes withdrew due to fears of contracting an infection. Unfortunately for surfers, the […]

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Posted in Infectious Disease

Case Report: A Nicaraguan Stowaway

Oct 30, 2013 ~ Author Surfing Medicine Staff
injury-botfly

What is nastier than a maggot wriggling around on a piece of meat? Read on and you’ll find out…. History of Present Illness A 32 year old otherwise healthy female presents to the Emergency Department with a painful red lump on just above her left knee that she has had for about a month. Initially […]

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Posted in Case Report, Infectious Disease - Tagged Abscess, Botfly, Central America, Dermatobium Homonis

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