Bugs will travel: Public health watches foreign outbreaks because diseases move
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/the-canadian-press/140109/bugs-will-travel-public-health-watches-foreign-outbreaks-bec
If you ever wonder why public health officials worry about far-flung diseases ? the latest bird flu, the new MERS coronavirus ? the incidents above pretty much explain it. Bugs travel. Or as public health folks like to put it, infectious diseases ...
Debilitating mosquito-borne disease spreads in Caribbean
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2022673568_caribbeanmosquitovirusxml.html
?It is important to note that these confirmed cases were not exposed to travel, which alerts us that the virus is already in our mosquito population,? British Virgin Islands medical officer Ronald Georges said. The World Health Organization was ...
Protect against infectious diseases, travellers urged
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/f91fa574-6b54-4f60-83be-d3cfbaa80bed.aspx
Abu Dhabi: Ambulatory Healthcare Services (AHS), a part of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha), has urged residents of Abu Dhabi who are planning to travel abroad, including pilgrims who want to travel to Makkah for performing Haj or Umrah, ...
Foreign travel raises health risks
http://www.theage.com.au/national/overseas-travel-raises-risk-of-superbug-infection-20140202-31vfu.html
Austin Hospital infectious diseases director Lindsay Grayson said that, until recently, superbug infections in Australia were largely confined to patients with weakened immune systems who had taken lots of antibiotics. But, he said, the Austin was now ...
Travel Safe: There's a Doctor in Your Train
http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/Travel-Safe-Theres-a-Doctor-in-Your-Train/2014/02/02/article2032768.ece
The PIL brought to the court's notice that there was no trained medical staff on the long-route trains to treat patients suffering from serious ailments like heart diseases, diabetes, asthma while travelling. ?At present, the Railways does not post ...
Canada's public health officials watch foreign outbreaks because diseases move
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Bugs+will+travel+Public+health+watch+foreign+outbreaks+because/9371856/story.html
If you ever wonder why public health officials worry about far-flung diseases ? the latest bird flu, the new MERS coronavirus ? the incidents above pretty much explain it. Bugs travel. Or as public health folks like to put it, infectious diseases ...
Wary of a cruise, a dad becomes a convert
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2014/02/01/essay-wary-cruise-dad-becomes-convert/mhHoIDHolvCgOXrt335seP/story.html
I was also acquainted with the frequency of norovirus outbreaks aboard cruise ships, which I had long viewed as cauldrons of communicable diseases. But there we were, ... It was traveling without having to heave bags around. With a 16-month-old son and ...
Beware of mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus in Asia and the Pacific
http://www.couriermail.com.au/travel/travel-advice/beware-of-mosquitoborne-chikungunya-virus-in-asia-and-the-pacific/story-fnjjv72l-1226815137947
There were 127 cases of Chikungunya among Australians in 2013, up from 19 in 2012, Department of Health's notifiable diseases surveillance system data analysed by comparison website finder.com.au shows. This is a 568 per cent increase in the number ...
