- The CDC suggests visiting your physician several weeks ahead of your trip. You should be up-to-date with routine vaccinations while visiting Vanuatu and remember, some other vaccines may also be ..
- The latest news in the world of childhood infections is that there is a resurgence of mumps among young American teenagers and adolescents. Researchers believe that this is most likely because of ..
- Most people who travel by sea or air frequently complain of travel sickness or jet lag. The symptoms of jet lag or travel sickness vary from fatigue, tiredness, and flu-like symptoms, lack of ..
- Most people take different medications when they travel. In the past, carrying medicines while traveling was not much of a hassle. It was not uncommon to find people traveling with sleep ..
- Zika virus made headlines in 2015-16 when the virus grew into an epidemic spreading from Brazil to all across North and South Americas. In the general population, Zika virus produces mild ..
- Over the past decade, the shingles virus, Zostavax, has been heavily promoted both by the manufacturer and the CDC. In almost every medical magazine and online health forums, people over the age ..
- A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that there is a consistent increase in the number of hard-to-treat infections and this may be linked to antibiotics. Study ..
- Even since the HPV vaccines were developed, healthcare workers have found it hard to get teenagers vaccinated. Government and other medical agencies have spent millions of dollars on ads to ..
- A new disease-tracking website suggests that mosquitoes may be moving into new ecological niches. The website is called ProMED mail. PromMED stands for the Program for Monitoring Emerging ..
- Meningitis B is rare but a very lethal infection. A few months ago a few students at Princeton and the University of California-Santa Barbara were infected by it and it was then realized that ..