Traveler Health:
Health information for travelers to various popular travel destinations.
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Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations (i.e., lower rates of mortality, obesity, and diabetes) than those that are home to large companies with "absentee" owners. Rural seniors have the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
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Dr. Oz takes pumpkin seeds when he travels among two other secrets and wants you to be aware of them.
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Dr. Wayne Andersen, author of the bestselling book "Dr. A's Habits of Health," says watch how much alcohol you drink while traveling as alcohol will down your defense system and is full of empty calories.
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Researchers say being obese raises the chances of dying in a severe motor vehicle crash 56 percent. The findings have prompted researchers to suggest new car designs to accomodate the increasing rates of obesity in America.
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An experimental vaccine being developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), a Center of the National Institutes of Health, continues to show promise as an emergency treatment for accidental exposure to the Marburg virus which causes an infection with a very high fatality rate. Although Marburg hemorrhagic fever is rare in the United States, those at risk include foreign travelers, those in contact with non-human primates, and health care workers.
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Full body scanners at airports do not pose any threats to physical health. The scanners that take full body images are worrisome to travelers because of concerns about privacy, but a new report from a radiology expert suggests that viewing scans out of public view could allay worries.
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Medical tourism is becoming increasingly popular among Americans because of escalating health care costs in the United States, but consumers should be careful to look for accredited centers for their care. This is especially important in the Latin American medical tourism market related to fertility clinics.
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Taking a prebiotic dietary supplement before traveling to a foreign country was found to significantly reduce the incidence and duration of traveler’s diarrhea.
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Health ministers from Arab countries have set series of restrictions on the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca. This rare move is adopted because of the spread of influenza A in the region, reports te Egyptian media today.
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Researches report a threefold increase in risk for DVT with long stretches of travel which for most implies flights. It can also be long drives without stops to walk around.
