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Staying Healthy When You Travel, New Edition
Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More- Regular price
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The ultimate guide to research, plan, and prepare for your next vacation abroad, Staying Healthy When You Travel is filled with over 300 pages that will prepare you for anything! Author Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is an expert in parasitology, vector ecology, and child health, and she's also traveled around the world to treat the sick. She condenses all her years of medical experience into this incredibly helpful guide that's packed with international travel tips and crucial case histories, advice on immunizations and other precautions to take, tables and maps that match disease risk to countries, health tips to protect yourself from insects and worms, and so much more. While the author wrote this book with the world traveler in mind, it is also an excellent source for anyone who spends time outside camping or hiking or traveling locally, with helpful advice on protection from mosquitos, treatments for minor injuries, and first aid for cuts wouldn, dehydration, fainting, snake bites and more! So before you prepare to travel in a post-COVID world and head to the airport, do your research with this travel book and you'll be good to go!
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Pages | 320 |
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Publish Date | 2023-12-19 |
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Size | 7.0" x 9.0" x 0.0" |
Author | Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth |
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Kristy Alpert, author, and freelance travel journalist with Travel + Leisure, Cosmopolitan, Global Traveler, Fodor's Travel, and more.
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Staying Healthy When You Travel
Before Departure
Learn about important considerations to keep you safe before you travel.
Bugs, Bites, and Bowels
Find useful tips for avoiding serious ailments and recovering quickly when afflicted with common conditions.
Sun and Skin Hazards
About the Author
Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is a medical doctor with expertise in zoology and parasite biology. She has worked for more than 15 years on child survival and also health and hygiene promotion in Madagascar, Peru, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Nepal, as well as with Syrian refugees in Greece. She was also medical director of a travel immunization clinic for 11 years and served as a general practitioner (family physician) in Cambridgeshire for 15 years. Most recently she has been mentoring paramedics in remote Himalayan villages as well as COVID-vaccinating in East Anglia. Jane wrote the first edition of her comprehensive travel health guide, Bugs, Bites & Bowels, while living without electricity on an island in the largest tributary of the Ganges and since the book was first launched, it has sold tens of thousands of copies. Staying Healthy When You Travel is the sixth edition of this successful and popular text. Jane has written eight other books, which are detailed on her author website www.wilson-howarth.com
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