Tropical medicine

Possibly the most relevant new concept in tropical medicine is how our perception of the subject has changed in the last few years from the days of classical descriptions of parasitology, infectious agents and entomology. Some now prefer to use the term ‘International Health’, emphasizing that with the advent of the Internet, rapid international travel and communication, we have now become part of the ‘Global Village’. Tropical medicine is an issue that we, in the wider world, can no longer afford to neglect: progress in this field continues in leaps and bounds.