This Week In Travel And Health
I’m pretty sure that your bucket list – like mine – includes visiting Carnival in Rio at least once. Well, here’s your shot. It starts tomorrow (Saturday, the 18th) and continues through Fat Tuesday. You can party for 96 straight hours (if you’re tough enough), have the time of your life, eat chicken hearts and [...]
We love to travel, but travel is exhausting. The problem for many is that it’s just so difficult to sleep when they’re away from home. And that can make the thrill of visiting a new place a little less thrilling. And, of course, when you’re crossing time zones, there’s the specter of jet lag. The [...]
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Those of us who were practicing medicine back in the mid 1990’s recall the amazing “miracle pill” Fen-Phen, a combination of two drugs called fenfluramine and phentermine, that resulted in rapid weight loss. Its popularity was short lived, however, when it was discovered that the two medicines together could cause damage to heart valves and [...]
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February 15, 2012 No CommentThe usefulness of travel insurance are many for example, loss or damage of your belongings, emergency medical expenses while on the tour, moreover it even covers you if the tour is canceled. There are several avenues to shop for a travel insurance these days. You may buy a travel insurance from your local tour operator [...]
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With Valentine’s Day upon us, romance is in the air and for some that means talk of weddings. We can all agree that full-on wedding planning is one of the most stressful things you’ll ever go through. So with that in mind, here are the best places on Earth to get hitched – places so [...]
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While you’re unlikely to come across it, meningococcal disease should be on your radar for the simple fact that it is potentially fatal. The good news is that the disease is rare and it is vaccine-preventable. In this post, we will describe symptoms and tell you where the disease can be found and how it [...]
What you Need to Know about Meningococcal Disease as a Traveler is a post from: Sick on the Road
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Last week, we wrote about the record number of tourists flocking to Mexico despite the country’s ongoing drug violence. And while that fact is true, it’s not a permission slip to naively stumble down to Mexico without any idea of where you’re headed and what’s happening there. This week, the U.S. Department of State issued [...]
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As a follow up to last week’s post about gluten-free globetrotting, let’s take a look at tools you can use to maintain a vegan or vegetarian diet while you travel the world. Whether you’re traveling for business, pleasure or school, one of the great aspects of travel is obviously the opportunity to experience different cultures, [...]
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Last Thursday, U.S. health officials reported that after a full decade of decline, Europe and Africa reported an increase in the number of measles cases in 2010. Because of concerted immunization efforts in those areas, total cases declined from more than 853,000 in 2000 to nearly 278,000 in 2008, and remained stable in 2009. However, [...]
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Despite the bad headlines over the seemingly never-ending drug wars in Mexico, tourists are flocking to the country more than ever before. The Financial Times reports that Mexico had a record number of tourists this past December. More than a million tourists traveled to Mexico in December – a 13 percent jump from the previous [...]
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