Travelers' Health

Traveling the world can make you susceptible to infectious diseases your immune system has never encountered. Learn how to protect yourself and ensure a safe and healthy vacation.
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Qualaquin (Quinine) - Oral
Bird flu.
What Is Bird Flu?
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Biltricide (Praziquantel) - Oral
Rat on cobbled street in Frankfurt, Germany
What Is Typhus?
Prescription and medication
What to Know About Chloroquine
Pediatrician doctor examining a little girl by stethoscope
An Overview of Diphtheria
Information About the Tsetse Fly and Sleeping Sickness
An Overview of African Sleeping Sickness
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Causes and Risk Factors of Malaria
Followers of Febris prayed to her for relief from fever and malaria.
How Malaria Is Treated
Male Doctor listening heart beat and breathing of Elderly Woman with Stethoscope with First Aid Medical Box.
Symptoms of Malaria
Sick woman laying in bed under blanket
How Malaria Is Diagnosed
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Chikungunya Symptoms and Treatment
elephantiasis
An Overview of Elephantiasis
Guinea worm disease
An Overview of Guinea Worm Disease
Ebola virus
What Is Ebola?
Deer tick on a finger
An Overview of Babesiosis
Schistosomes Parsitic Worms
What Is Schistosomiasis Disease?
Dromedary camel
What Is MERS?
Female laboratory worker using microscope
Are Ebola Mutations Making It More Deadly?
Mexican Freetail bats in flight at dusk, Tadarida brasiliensis. Carlsbad Caverns National Park. New Mexico. USA
Diseases That Can Be Spread by Bats
OCP project employee collecting adult black flies, the vector for river blindness.
An Overview of Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
Hookworm
Hookworm in Humans: Signs, Transmission, Prevention
A mosquito.
What Is Malaria?
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How Chikungunya has spread in the New World
A child with Dengue fever during a 2002 outbreak in Honduras
Overview of Dengue Fever
Close up of a mosquito on a person's skin
What You Need to Know About the Chikungunya Virus
Doctor holding a newborn baby sick with rubella
An Overview of Rubella