'Don't let a drop of water touch your mouth' and other global travel tips
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-dont-mouth-global.html
"Remember that most diseases are transmitted by food, water and insects," says John A. Sellick, Jr., DO, University at Buffalo associate professor in the Department of Medicine and hospital epidemiologist at Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare ...
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 ...
How to cope when illnesses cripple your travel plans
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140608/travel/How-to-cope-when-illnesses-cripple-your-travel-plans.522666
Veronica Stivala seeks advice from seasoned travellers. Thomas Morgan knows a thing or two about travel-related diseases. He has contracted typhoid fever seven times, malaria seven times, giardiasis twice and amoebic dysentery (both violent attacks on ...
PAHO/WHO encourages measles, rubella vaccinations before travelling to the ...
http://www.winfieldcourier.com/sports/article_688ccb12-f04d-11e3-bdfc-0019bb2963f4.html
Intensified international travel and population movement associated with mass events such as the World Cup increase the risk of imported cases of measles, rubella and other vaccine-preventable diseases. For this reason, PAHO/WHO is calling on travelers ...
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 ...
Precautions help decrease mosquito problems
http://www.kpcnews.com/columnists/terry_gaff/kpcnews/article_76308d58-b67f-54dc-8d1c-a14df9d8859b.html
Although the weather is becoming warm and wonderful, it is unlikely that northern Indiana would be mistaken for the tropical islands of the Caribbean. However, there are rare occasions when tropical diseases travel north to surprise us. Over the years ...
How Sex Could Wipe Out Malaria
http://abc7chicago.com/news/how-sex-could-wipe-out-malaria/114646/
Based on laboratory experiments, they think they can do it by messing up the sex life of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that sucks blood out of other animals, including humans, that carries the parasite that causes a disease for which there is no ...
Local vet travels across the world to aid nomads
http://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/local-vet-travels-across-the-world-to-aid-nomads/article_790c34ac-f3bb-11e3-af44-001a4bcf6878.html
The latter treatment involved diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea. Bowman said the nomads are somewhat realistic about their loss of animals, but said treatment like that he and his colleagues administered would prevent many of the losses. ?Most of ...
