Study tracks diseases brought home by Canadians travelling abroad
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/study-tracks-diseases-brought-home-by-canadians-travelling-abroad-1.1740910
A new study says up to 70 per cent of Canadians who travel abroad, especially to developing countries, return with some sort of illness -- and many of those cases are preventable. The study, published in the journal Open Medicine, looked at 4,365 ...
Bless You! Coughs And Sneezes Form Traveling Disease Clouds
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Bless-You-Coughs-And-Sneezes-Form-Traveling-Disease-Clouds-254639671.html
Your cough or sneeze infected with a cold or flu travels much farther than scientists previously thought -- potentially spreading disease-causing pathogens in a wide spray. A new study from MIT scientists warns coughs and sneezes breed gas clouds that ...
Longer Travel Distance Linked With Higher Stage Colon Cancer at Diagnosis
http://www.cancernetwork.com/colorectal-cancer/longer-travel-distance-linked-higher-stage-colon-cancer-diagnosis
The greater distance a patient had to travel to reach a diagnosing facility the more likely that patient was to present with a higher stage disease of colon cancer, according to the results of a study published in the March 20 issue of the Journal of ...
Ebola Hunt Draws US Team Searching for Disease Carriers
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-02/ebola-hunt-draws-team-from-u-dot-s-dot-seeking-disease-carriers-health
Still, Ebola doesn't travel through the air, making it harder to transmit than other pathogens, such as influenza, as long as adequate health-care practices are followed, said David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London ...
Man critically ill in Saskatoon after travel to Africa
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/man-critically-ill-in-saskatoon-after-travel-to-africa-1.2584762
A man who recently travelled in western Africa is in critical condition in hospital in Saskatoon, according to provincial health officials. The nature of the illness was not released, but the man has a high fever, in addition to other symptoms ...
Coughs and Sneezes Propel Invisible Particles Much Farther Than We Thought
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/coughs-and-sneezes-send-particles-far-041314
Coughs and sneezes produce gas clouds that allow their germ-filled droplets to travel much farther than previously thought, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers, published online in the Journal of Fluid ...
'Level 4' disease research can be safe, belongs in America's medical capital
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/04/13/level-disease-research-can-safe-belongs-america-medical-capital/sShOiraz03EUmSRX9JCueO/story.html
Films such as ?Outbreak? and ?Contagion? contemplate the consequences of deadly microbes proliferating with the help of air travel and the health care system itself. These are precisely the kind of events that Boston University's National Emerging ...
Haad says Mers not a public health concern
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/nationhealth/2014/April/nationhealth_April31.xml§ion=nationhealth
... the current situation does not require a travel ban to any country in the world, screenings at different ports, or any restrictions on trade. It also reassured everyone that globally, detected cases continue to be very low compared to other types ...
