travel history

  • Why does this person from this place develop these symptoms at this time?
  • Where did you go? Where exactly?
  • When did you go? (incubation period)
  • Exposure risk history:
    • What did you do? What did you eat?
    • Where did you stay?
  • Fever without a focus = fever with no focal signs (≠ PUO, usually non-infective cause)