Health aspects of the refugee crisis — case reports
In recent years, the number of refugees and illegal immigrants reaching Europe from the many regions affected by warfare, humanitarian disasters, and epidemics. Along with the changing directions from which refugees are arriving, the potential epidemiological risks are also changing and new health challenges arise at the ED level as well as in the context of population health. A particularly dangerous trend can be seen in the potential reduction in travel time from an endemic country to Europe, of people who are healthy carriers of potentially infectious diseases, which allows the development of the full-blown forms of particular entities only in destination countries, where people working in the in the health sector do not have adequate training to deal with diseases that are new to their territory with diseases. The presentation presents two case reports with similar symptomatology but completely different etiology and management using P.falciparum malaria and Ebola hemorrhagic fever as examples.
