Citation

Flaherty GT. J. Travel Med. 2018; 25(1): e38.

Affiliation

School of Medicine, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, International Society of Travel Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1093/jtm/tay038

PMID

29860444

Abstract

Both wilderness travel and traumatic accidents are disproportionately under-represented in the travel medicine literature, despite their importance as sources of travel-related morbidity and mortality. Heggie reports among the first original studies addressing lake tourism-associated mortality. His retrospective study of tourist fatalities over a 46-year period at Lake Powell in the USA reveals that 73% of deaths at this popular reservoir resulted from accidental injuries. The detailed analysis of the preceding circumstances provides fascinating glimpses into the risk factors for accidental death in this tourism setting. Tourists were engaged in a total of sixteen different recreational activities prior to the incidents that resulted in their deaths, illustrating the...

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