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Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...s and modes of treatment. Almost 90 percent of the travellers were found to have basic knowledge of AMS and could recognize its symptoms (such as headache, plus 2 or more of the following: fatigue, dizziness, nausea, insomnia). 72 percent knew that descent was the primary mode of treatment. However, a fundament...

'Hi, can You Hear Me? I'm at 30,000 Feet'

..., the airplane, is about to be connected, allowing travellers to make mobile phone calls at high altitude. Reque...nfined space of an airliner risks making talkative travellers a serious threat to peace. "One wouldn't necessarily want to be sat next to someone who talked for t...

Thrombosis Risk in Travel Lasting Over Four Hours is Higher: WHO

...esearch project concludes that there is a need for travellers to be given appropriate information regarding the risk of VTE by transport authorities, airlines, and medical professionals....

Typhoid Outbreak Linked to Samoa

...tworks that there is a lot of typhoid in Samoa, so travellers going to Samoa have to be particularly aware." She suggested that people intending to visit Samoa should consider visiting their GP for a typhoid vaccination. Symptoms of typhoid could include high fever, sweats, aches and pains and a rash on the...

AMA Calls For Ban On Duty-Free Cigarettes

... “The lower price of duty-free tobacco encourages travellers to buy cigarettes in larger quantities than usual, and once purchased, the tendency is to smoke them more rapidly,” Dr Haikerwal said. “Raising the price of cigarettes through the imposition of tax is an important deterrent to would-be smokers – t...

Drink Red Wine to Stay Young

... body clock and has become widely used by frequent travellers to try to counteract jet leg. Source-IANS...

Oral Polio Vaccine Necessary for Haj Pilgrims

...nani; Hyderabad; Ahmedabad. Immunisation of all travellers prior to departure will minimize the risk of importation of the virus to countries that have worked hard to eradicate polio. It will also boost the immunity of travellers, especially young children who are more susceptible to infection, and help stop...

Travellers Cautioned Over The Alternate Remedies For Malaria

...hat are claiming to prevent malaria, after several travellers contracted the potentially fatal disease. It was...tics have shown that every year almost 2000 of the travellers return having contracted the disease. The doctors have also begun finding that in many cases the p...

Britons don't Need Malaria Pills Before Visiting India

... to luck. The single most important precaution for travellers is to avoid being bitten: besides malaria, plenty of other insect-borne diseases thrive in the region." (Source: IANS)...

Tourists Face Health Risks by Missing Vaccinations

...the fact that 19 percent of these were experienced travellers and who therefore claimed that they knew how to av...factor was that the areas most commonly visited by travellers who do not take the recommended vaccinations are all high risk malaria zones according to the World ...

Punjab Plans of Banning Sex Determination Kit from US

... ban would not be foolproof. "There are NRIs and travellers from abroad who can smuggle these kits into India. The PNDT Act needs to be amended suitably with a strict penalty for using such kits," said gynaecologist Sanjay Goyal. Punjab has one of the worst sex ratios in the country - 874 females against 1,...

Investigations Reveal That Infections Due To Contact lens Could Cause Blindness

...us is very common. They have advised that all such travellers would be safer by switching to daily disposable contact lenses so as to avoid the risk that could be associated with wearing long lasting lenses. Scientists at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) had reported in today’s edition of the Journ...

Indian Designers show lot of Talent

...ocal customer needs in Dubai and for international travellers who shop in Dubai. What the customer wants in the US or Europe is not necessarily the same. "People in New York, for example, want clothing that is more tailored, that is more sober and discreet. People in the Middle East like more colours - more j...

Suspected Bird Flu Death Creates Panic In Hong Kong

...om lawmakers to tighten up border health checks on travellers and on poultry imports. Hong Kong has had no human cases of bird flu in the current outbreak, but CHP director Leung Pak-yin warned that the threat was increasing. "We expect there could be human cases in Hong Kong and we all need to be well prep...

Malaria Warnings On The Rise in UK

...n recent years. Prof Chiodini said, "We ask that travellers also avoid mosquito bites by wearing insect repellent and cover-up clothing and sleep under an insecticide-treated net in conjunction with taking anti-malarial medication to ensuring they adequately protect themselves against the disease."...

Feast Of The East a gastronomic tour-de-force

...mbai (Dec 16-25). "Over the centuries, explorers, travellers and traders returning home from distant exotic lands usually brought home a treasury of ingredients and recipes to enrich their tables. Thus, cuisines enlarged their gastronomical vocabulary, morphed and became more interesting," Li pointed out. Li ...

Travel in Aircraft can cause Thrombosis

...the odds, WHO states. Doctors say that many air travellers who develop deep-vein thrombosis, or DVT, either did not have medical risk factors or did not think they had any. At least 200 people around the world have had DVT following air travel in the last decade....

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

...th by the World Health Organisation as a place for travellers to avoid. Steakhouse chains are bracing for further fall-out as Canadians stay away from eating beef.Above all, Canadian officials are trying to calm fears of the disease spreading to humans, as happened in Britain and Europe. "The risk to human heal...

SARS impact could be devastating

...RS so far appeared to be mainly spread by business travellers and holiday-makers, taking a huge toll on the airline and leisure industries, governments also needed to rethink the way they handled migrant workers to prevent them from succumbing to the disease and accelerating its spread....

WHO Travel Advice to prevent spread of "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

...ong. ?WHO has revised its advice to international travellers on the basis of new data from China and Hong Kong to prevent the further international spread of SARS. In a press release this morning, WHO issued the following advice:? The World Health Organization (WHO) today began recommending that persons trav...

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