Staying Healthy When You Travel: Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More

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Do you know how to self-treat the commonest of traveller ailments And more importantly, do you know how to recognise genuinely serious symptoms or how to manage a medical emergency when help may be hours away Grounded in lived experience, Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth advises on the fundamentals of first aid and how to improvise until medical help can be reached in this accessible and comprehensive travel guide. The only book you'll need to prepare for - and enjoy - the trip of a lifetime!

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Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth's thorough guide on staying healthy while traveling is an incredible piece to add to your travel toolkit. She covers rarely talked-about syndromes like reverse culture shock and offers easy-to-follow, practical advice that could potentially save your life . or at the very least, save your vacation. - Kristy Alpert, author, and freelance travel journalist with Travel + Leisure, Cosmopolitan, Global Traveler, Fodor's Travel, and more.

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Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth is a British GP and zoologist and a renowned authority on travel health. An expert in parasitology, vector biology and child survival, Jane has worked and lived in remote areas of the world for 15 years. Closer to home, she has worked as a GP and been the Medical Director of the Travel Clinic in Cambridge. She has written five non fiction books and three novels, as well as over 300 articles on travel and health.