April 21, 2014

top five travel illnesses (and how to avoid them)
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/traveller-tips/the-top-five-travel-illnesses-and-how-to-avoid-them-20140416-36rj8.html
Dr Gherardin says travel health experts are concerned about a recent rise in typhoid cases among Australian travellers, especially as the disease is becoming more drug-resistant and may not respond to the first line of antibiotics. According to Finder ...


How to avoid mosquito bites ? and diseases
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2023391542_mosquitohealthtravelwisexml.html
?If you're in Central America, South America, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia ? all of these places that are the most beautiful travel destinations ? it's really a concern,? said Leslie B. Vosshall, a scientist at Rockefeller University ...


Top five travel illnesses and how to avoid
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/top-five-travel-illnesses-and-how-to-avoid-20140416-36rj8.html
Dr Gherardin says travel health experts are concerned about a recent rise in typhoid cases among Australian travellers, especially as the disease is becoming more drug-resistant and may not respond to the first line of antibiotics. According to Finder ...


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 ...


Just How Far Do Sneezes Travel? WAY Farther Than You Think.
http://www.ryot.org/just-far-sneezes-travel-way-think/647921
You know how they always say to sneeze into your elbow? Well, it's not just to keep from showering others in a snot spray; it's also because every time you sneeze, you're blasting out a gas cloud of disease-carrying spittle. A new study from the ...


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 ...


'Traveling Pants' Author Tries Traveling In Time
http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/npr-traveling-pants-author-tries-traveling-in-time/
17-year-old
Prenna James and her whole community have escaped a world that's been all but wiped out by ?blood plagues,? deadly mosquito-borne diseases. Now, they're hiding in plain sight, forbidden to mix too closely with the locals ? and wrangling ...


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 ...