How to undertake a risk assessment prior to travel
http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/undertake-risk-assessment-prior-travel/
For example, young children may be more vulnerable to certain travel-related hazards, illness may be more difficult to recognise, they may not have completed their childhood vaccinations, and certain preventive measures such as malaria prophylaxis or ...
Avoid importing diseases when traveling
http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-features/avoid-importing-diseases-when-traveling
I left Cameroon a week before they started to clamp down on across-the-border travel in several adjoining countries. This is one of the worst human diseases, and finally the international community is taking it seriously. The situation with Ebola as ...
Travel: Mosquito-borne diseases
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/travel-mosquito-borne-diseases
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Google Flu Trends may have failed but computers show travel helps Ebola spread
http://www.dw.de/google-flu-trends-may-have-failed-but-computers-show-travel-helps-ebola-spread/a-17895427
Modern travel has no doubt made it easier for diseases to spread - and spread farther. This is nothing new in that diseases have always traveled with us, even back in the day when our best modes of transport were our feet, or a horse and cart. Over the ...
The Ebola outbreak: Is it safe to travel?
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/08/18/ebola-outbreak-is-it-safe-to-travel/
The outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa has struck fear into visitors to the region. The disease has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, so travelers need to understand just how the virus spreads. Ebola is not an airborne illness like SARS (severe ...
Disease warning for travellers
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/10470298/Disease-warning-for-travellers
Balm, who works for Capital & Coast District Health Board, did a presentation about the Zika virus at a travel medicine conference in Rotorua last month. It was vital that New Zealand maintained tight biosecurity because it was possible the type of ...
Travel Law Dangerous student tours: The Chinese tick case
http://www.eturbonews.com/49598/dangerous-student-tours-chinese-tick-case
In addition to its common law duties, The School ?admits that it owes students in its travel-abroad programs a general duty of care to advise them of the foreseeable risks of, and strategies for preventing contraction of, insect-borne diseases. At ...
"Disease-carrying" terrapins removed from London park
http://travel.aol.co.uk/2014/08/20/disease-carrying-terrapins-removed-london-park/
Terrapins are being removed from a park in London after officials said the "voracious" creatures carry diseases harmful to humans and domestic animals. Hackney Council and the Environment Agency are using safe floating traps to remove the terrapins ...
