A sentinel tourist is a tourist who is visiting an endemic area and who is willing to be tested for monitoring of viruses with unknown ecology. Every tourist visiting a tropical country might serve as a voluntary sentinel tourist in order to teach us the epidemiology of some viruses. Interested readers are travellers in subsaharan Africa and developmental workers , who have suffered from unknown febrile disease during their stay or after returning rom Africa. There is circumstantial evidence that some tourists and developmental workers may have acquired infections with Marburg virus or with Ebola virus during their stay in Africa. This is especially recommendable in persons who suffered from febrile disease, including malaria during their stay in Africa or after returning home.
Testing is free.
We would only ask you to fill in a questionary concerning your age, your travel and the places which you visited and on your disease.