Travel Health

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Travel Health

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NEWS:

Air Travel Clots New Guidelines

EPA: 13 Percent Of Airliner Water Unsafe

Radiation a worry for air travellers

Tea may hold back Alzheimer's

Travel Dangers for Diabetics

Travel Rx, Plan Ahead

Survey highlights health risks of overseas travel

ARTICLES:

Air Travel and Cardiovascular Disease (J Travel Med)

Air Travel During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?

Airline Water Supplies

Coping With Traveler's Diarrhea

Cruise ships and gastrointestinal illness: How to keep the bug at bay

Cruising Tips

Health risks of overseas travel: ignorance and complacency prevail about infectious diseases.

Health risks of overseas travel: perhaps treatment on return home should depend on having taken drug prophylaxis.

International Travel and Sexually Transmitted Disease

Protecting yourself with travel immunizations (NHS: UK)

Recent Outbreaks on Cruise Ships

Thrombosis Guidelines Offer New Recommendations For Travelers

Traveling for Business? Work in a Workout

Traveling This Summer? Here Are Tips for Safe and Healthy Travel...

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

[Adult immunization in France: an update] (Rev Prat)

Air travel in pregnancy: the 'air-born' study. (Ir Med J)

Antibiotics for Travelers: What's Good and What's Not. (Curr Infect Dis Rep)

Bismuth Revisted: An Effective Way to Prevent Travelers' Diarrhea (Journal of Travel Medicine)

Brucellosis and international travel. (J Travel Med)

Caffeine or melatonin effects on sleep and sleepiness after rapid eastward transmeridian travel. (J Appl Physiol)

Epidemiology of measles in the United States, 1997-2001. (J Infect Dis)

Fatal respiratory diphtheria in a U.S. traveler to Haiti--Pennsylvania, 2003. (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep)

Imported Lassa fever--New Jersey, 2004. (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep)

Influence of hygiene on gastrointestinal illness among wilderness backpackers. (J Travel Med)

Knowledge, attitudes and practices in travel-related infectious diseases: the European airport survey. (J Travel Med)

Malaria in travelers: a review of the GeoSentinel surveillance network. (Clin Infect Dis)

Malaria Surveillance --- United States, 2002 (MMWR)

Malaria: control strategies, chemoprophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment. (Clin Occup Environ Med)

Malaria-Related Deaths among U.S. Travelers, 1963–2001 (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Morbidity and determinants of health on youth expeditions. (Wilderness Environ Med)

New world mucosal and cutaneous leishmaniasis: an emerging health problem among British travellers. (QJM)

Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Diseases on Cruise Ships: Lessons from Three Decades of Progress. (Curr Infect Dis Rep)

Pneumonia among travelers returning from abroad. (J Travel Med)

Rickettsial infections--a threat to travellers? (Curr Opin Infect Dis)

Risk and Prevention of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Travelers (Journal of Travel Medicine)

Sexual behaviour of young people in international tourist resorts. (Sex Transm Infect)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines --- 2002 (MMWR)

Travel health knowledge, attitudes and practices among Australasian travelers. (J Travel Med)

Travel health knowledge, attitudes and practices among United States travelers. (J Travel Med)

Travel immunizations. (Am Fam Physician)

Travel medicine considerations for North American immigrants visiting friends and relatives. (JAMA)

Travelers' knowledge, attitudes and practices on the prevention of infectious diseases: results from a study at Johannesburg International Airport. (J Travel Med)

[Thromboembolic events related to travel, with the train too] (Presse Med)

Tick paralysis presenting in an urban environment. (Pediatr Neurol)

Travel as a risk factor for venous thromboembolic disease. (Eur J Med Res)

Travel counsellors and travel health advice. (Can J Public Health)

Travel health knowledge, attitudes and practices among United States travelers. (J Travel Med)

Travellers' thrombosis and economy class syndrome: incidence, aetiology and prevention. (Clin Lab Haematol)

[Vaccinations for the travellers] (Rev Prat)

INTERNET SITES:

CDC-Traveler's Health

CDC-Traveler's Health Sexually Transmitted Diseases

CDC-Traveler's Health Vaccinations

DH-England Health Advice for Travelers

Frequently asked questions : Travel Health (NHS: UK)

Latest Health Updates (Dept. Health: UK)

NIH-Immunization

Travel health (CDR Weekly: UK)

Travelers' Health (CDC: USA)

WHO-International Travel and Health

WHO-International Travel and Health Index of Countries

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