Travel Health Guide: Everything You Need to Know Before You Leave, While You're Away, After You're Back

<p><b>A clear, concise and comprehensive guide to staying healthy while abroad.</b></p> <p>Regardless of why a person is traveling abroad, having up-to-date health information before departing and readily available along the way is critical. <b><i>Travel Health Guide</i></b> is an easy-to-use, no-nonsense book written in everyday language by a physician who specializes in travel medicine. This book is essential for new travelers as well as seasoned globetrotters and includes all the latest vital medical information.</p> <p>The guide begins by helping travelers get ready, with pointers on first-aid kits and pre-travel inoculations. There is a large section on the most frequently encountered infectious diseases and medical concerns, such as malaria, traveler's diarrhea and altitude sickness. The traveler will find at-a-glance answers to:</p> What is it?<br> What are the symptoms?<br> How do you get it?<br> Where do you get it?<br> How do you prevent it?<br> What to do if you get it? <p>There is also an encyclopedic directory with important information on other diseases, conditions and health issues that a traveler may encounter around the world.</p> <p>Along with maps showing the prevalence of infections throughout the world are numerous charts, including those on vaccines and anti-malaria treatments. The guide concludes with a section for returning travelers.</p> <p>Written for lay readers, <b><i>Travel Health Guide</i></b> is comprehensive but also concise, so travelers can easily consult it before they leave, while they're away and after they return home.</p>