Abstract

Travelling abroad is increasingly popular among the 4.5 million Norwegians. In 2007, Norwegians made a total of 5.8 million holiday trips defined as stays away from all-year residences with a duration of at least four nights. In about half of these trips (3.4 million trips), the destination was outside Norway. The favourite destination in 2007 was Spain, which was chosen for more than 650,000 holiday trips, followed by Denmark, Sweden and Greece [1].

Highlights

  • The Norwegian surveillance system for communicable diseases (Meldingssystem for smittsomme sykdommer; MSIS) requires a reporting clinician to record whether an infection was acquired in Norway or abroad, and the patient’s country of origin

  • The Norwegian Institute of Public Health is able to give an annual overview of the incidence of foreign travel-associated notifiable infections

  • Twenty-two percent of the cases (3,356/15,026) were foreign travel-associated infections defined as a patient with residence in Norway who is diagnosed with an infection after returning from a journey abroad

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Introduction

The Norwegian surveillance system for communicable diseases (Meldingssystem for smittsomme sykdommer; MSIS) requires a reporting clinician to record whether an infection was acquired in Norway or abroad, and the patient’s country of origin. If the infection is acquired abroad, the clinician is in addition required to record the date on which the patient returned to Norway and reason for the travel (e.g. holiday travel, visiting family in country of origin, business trip etc). In 2007, MSIS received information on reason for travel in 87% of the reported foreign travel-associated infections.

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