The Rough Guide to Travel HealthRough Guides, 2001 - 557 pages This work aims to offer in a single volume, a comprehensive guide to healthy travel. The first section offers useful pre-travel information on such topics as inoculations and a suggested medical kit. There is also a section aimed at travellers with special needs, including the female, pregnant or diabetic traveller. There is an A to Z of diseases and health risks, detailing symptoms and treatments, a section on which health risks are most common in each part of the globe and how best to prepare for them, and a directory of health contacts world-wide, including the latest online services. |
Contents
Travel by | 24 |
Staying well | 37 |
The medical | 50 |
Homeopathy | 71 |
Travellers with specific needs | 83 |
2 | 141 |
Tickborne diseases | 189 |
+ Ehrlichiosis | 209 |
+Q fever | 315 |
+ Relapsing fever | 321 |
+Tickborne encephalitis | 376 |
+ Tularaemia | 383 |
Flies fleas and other bugs | 389 |
Where in the world? | 425 |
Directory | 523 |
+ Human babesiosis | 249 |
Other editions - View all
The Rough Guide to Travel Health Nicholas Cadwaladr Rutter Jones,Pema Sanders,Charles Easmon No preview available - 2001 |
The Rough Guide to Travel Health Nicholas Cadwaladr Rutter Jones,Pema Sanders,Charles Easmon No preview available - 2001 |
The Rough Guide to Travel Health Nick Jones,Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist Nick Jones,Nicholas Cadwaladr Rutter Jones No preview available - 2004 |
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