For Viruses, Air Travel Ushers in a Golden Age
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/07/05/Air-Travel-Viruses/
Chikungunya won't be the last world-travelling virus. So many new diseases are appearing that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes a monthly journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases. Every year or two, the vast poultry populations ...
When traveling abroad, parasitary diseases can be prevented with the help of ...
http://www.praguepost.com/sponsored/39786-when-traveling-abroad-parasitary-diseases-can-be-prevented-with-the-help-of-travel-medicine
When travelling to developing countries, it is possible to apply a cholera vaccine, which can limit the likelihood of catching the disease by up to 50%. However, the quality of water and food consumed is of utmost importance. Washing hands before and ...
UB Infectious Disease Expert Shares 3 Major Travel Tips
http://medicine.buffalo.edu/news_and_events/research-news.host.html/content/shared/smbs/news/2014/06/healthy-travel-3932.detail.html
?Most diseases are transmitted by food, water and insects,? says Sellick, who emphasizes the importance of prevention when traveling outside of the United States, Canada, western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. ?Many infections are not ...
Travel-related illnesses highlighted
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/287861/travel-related-illnesses-highlighted
People travelling abroad may not be aware of diseases prevalent in certain countries and they should take vaccinations to protect themselves from infections caused by viral and bacterial agents, Dr A Baxarawi, Assistant Consultant, Al Ahli Hospital ...
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 ...
'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 ...
New Analysis Of The H1N1 Pandemic Conflicts With Accepted Views On How ...
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113183712/analysis-h1n1-pandemic-conflicts-with-accepted-views-on-how-the-disease-spread-070214/
?We have a view of how diseases spread in the medieval times, and it is often said that the modern world is completely different as we have long distance high volume air travel. However what we find here is that although air travel must have caused the ...
Second Case of Travel-Related Chikungunya confirmed in North Carolina
http://islandgazette.net/news-server5/index.php/news/local-and-state-news/state/22411-second-case-of-travel-related-chikungunya-confirmed-in-north-carolina
All North Carolina residents are also strongly advised to take measures such as emptying outdoor containers of any standing water at least weekly to decrease environmental conditions favorable to breeding mosquitos that could transmit this infection.
