Mosquito-borne illness spreads in Caribbean
http://www.travelweekly.com/Caribbean-Travel/Mosquito-borne-illness-spreads-in-Caribbean/
The Level 2 Watch List advises travelers to follow enhanced precautions; a Level 3 Warning is to avoid all nonessential travel due to a high risk. Among the symptoms that appear between four and seven days after someone has been bitten by an infected ...
CDC reports record measles, urges travel vaccination
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/05/cdc-reports-record-measles-urges-travel-vaccination
The US Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today sounded an alarm that measles cases have reached a 20-year high for this point of the year, with much of the spike driven by unvaccinated travelers who brought the disease back from ...
PAHO/WHO Reminds Travelers - Get Vaccinated Before Going to 2014 FIFA ...
http://www.soccernation.com/paho-who-reminds-travelers---get-vaccinated-before-going-to-2014-fifa-world-cup-cms-5899
With more Americans than ever expected to travel to Brazil for the FIFA World Cup, updating vaccinations against diseases such as measles and rubella is critical. The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is reminding ...
Mad Cow Diseases in Texas Kills Again
http://www.wkrb13.com/top-stories/319215/mad-cow-diseases-texas-kills/
Two of the three were connected to travel to the United Kingdom, where there have been 177 mad cow disease cases out of an estimated 220 worldwide. The third patient who succumbed to the disease was tied to traveling abroad in Saudi Arabia, where ...
Exotic disease case diagnosed in Brevard
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2014/06/06/exotic-disease-case-diagnosed-in-brevard/10096543/
The Florida Department of Health confirmed a travel-related case of Chikungunya fever, which is named after a word in the Kimakonde language that means "to become contorted," according to the World Health Organization. The disease, spread by ...
Summertime travel increases health risks
http://www.thevwindependent.com/news/2014/06/summertime-travel-increases-health-risks/
COLUMBUS ? Summertime travel at home and abroad may put Ohioans at increased risk of exposure to infectious diseases such as measles and mumps. Additionally, warm weather activities bring an elevated chance of contracting certain food and ...
Study says fans headed to Brazil risk getting infectious diseases
http://www.canada.com/health/Study+says+fans+headed+Brazil+risk+getting+infectious+diseases/9871017/story.html
To gauge what kind of disease threats foreigners face, researchers headed by Mary Wilson of Harvard University's School of Public Health looked at data from the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, a sampling of travel-medicine clinics on six continents.
Logan travelers warned about MERS virus
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/05/12/logan-travelers-warned-they-might-have-been-exposed-deadly-mers-virus/LnNSCdiXIjKlfVRpWLqAOK/story.html
?The risk to the US general public from MERS still remains very low,? Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, said in a statement. The agency is not recommending that Americans alter their ...
