Tropical medicine, in turn, is a specialty of infectiologists. It deals with diseases that occur only or predominantly in tropical and subtropical climates. This also includes the prevention and treatment of travel illnesses through appropriate vaccinations and medications. Some hospitals offer special travel medicine consultation hours for this purpose.
For example, major infectious diseases cared for at the hospital include:
- HIV/AIDS
- Tuberculosis
- severe pneumonia
- severe diarrheal diseases
- meningitis
- hepatitis
- malaria
- viral hemorrhagic fever
- meningitis
- endocarditis
- Lyme disease
- amoebic dysentery
