April 28, 2014

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 them)
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/traveller-tips/the-top-five-travel-illnesses-and-how-to-avoid-them-20140416-36rj8.html
Shall we add it to the list of 'Dumb Ways to Die'? Heading to high risk holiday destinations without vaccinations is about as smart as eating a tube of superglue, but more and more Aussies are doing it. Analysis of the Department of Health's notifiable ...


Five travel illnesses (and how to avoid them)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/9952505/Five-travel-illnesses-and-how-to-avoid-them
Gherardin says travel health experts are concerned about a recent rise in typhoid cases among travellers, especially as the disease is becoming more drug-resistant and may not respond to the first line of antibiotics. How to avoid it: Vaccination. MEASLES.


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 ...


To Your Health: Traveling abroad? Don't bring unwanted 'souvenirs' home
http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/lifestyles/26870443-423/to-your-health-traveling-abroad-dont-bring-unwanted-souvenirs-home.html
If you're planning a trip abroad, your first stop should be at a travel medicine clinic for a pretravel consultation with a travel medicine specialist. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends such a visit about six weeks in advance of ...


Diseases without borders
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/featured-news/Diseases-without-borders-256885831.html
Whether they travel in your nose when you come back from Miami, in cheese shipped from New Zealand, or in the flea on your friend's new imported dog, bacteria, viruses and fungi are world travellers in our global society and, for the most part, they ...


A Disease Considered Eradicated in 2000 Is Now Sweeping the Country
http://www.policymic.com/articles/88387/a-disease-considered-eradicated-in-2000-is-now-sweeping-the-country
Here is how the disease is spreading: Travel is a big factor ? 34 of the patients were infected abroad, with 17 contracting the disease in the Philippines. But the CDC and other doctors say the reason the outbreak has been so huge is because of people ...


Are enough kids vaccinated in your child's Utah school?
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57861069-78/utah-immunization-elementary-measles.html.csp
... scorn for starting the biggest measles outbreak in Utah in more than a decade. The family's unimmunized children imported the virus from Poland after traveling there to retrieve a Mormon missionary. ... "Each unimmunized person can become a vector ...