In this issue of the Journal of Travel Medicine , Johnson and colleagues review the risk of acquisition of hepatitis B in international travelers.1 They found that the monthly incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) acquisition in long‐term travelers to endemic countries ranges from 25 to 420 per 100,000. In the same issue, a study of short‐term travelers from Australia to Asia analyzing paired pre‐travel and post‐travel sera showed a much lower incidence of 2.19 new hepatitis B infections per 10,000 travel days.2 This is in agreement with a recent study of Danish travelers where the monthly incidence of HBV was estimated to be 10.2 per 100,000.3 Multiple factors, including HBV prevalence in the destination country, visiting friends and relatives (VFR) status, risk activities, or medical care during travel, all impact risk of HBV acquisition.1 These at‐risk travelers should be offered hepatitis B vaccination. Pre‐travel consultation is also an opportunity to identify previously undiagnosed HBV infection in travelers known to be at risk of HBV infection as underlined in one article published in the 20.1 issue of the Journal. The authors evaluated the behavior of travel medicine practitioners in Boston, MA, as it relates to screening travelers for hepatitis B.4 In this study, provider behavior in relation to testing for HBV as well as characteristics of those tested and immunized for HBV were analyzed over a 25‐month period: 16% of patients were born in HBV‐risk countries, only 25% had previous HBV test results at their travel clinic appointment and 11% had tests performed at their travel clinic visit. Among 230 travelers tested during their travel clinic visit, 3.3% were HBV infected … Corresponding Author: Patricia F. Walker, MD, DTM&H, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, Staff Physician, HealthPartners Center for International Health, Medical Director, HealthPartners Travel and Tropical Medicine Center, 451 North Dunlap St, St Paul, MN 55104, USA. E‐mail: patricia.f.walker{at}healthpartners.com