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YHA members shared their horror travel health stories in a recent competition - read the winning stories. |
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If you're travelling overseas for work or pleasure think about your health before you leave Australia.
The most common vaccine preventable diseases, hepatitis A & B, can spoil your trip and place friends and family at risk when you return. Vaccination for these diseases is available to ensure that travellers are protected before they leave home. To have a safe trip, start planning early.
| • | Travel insurance - YHA members save up to 20% on QBE Travel Insurance |
| • | Discuss immunisation, malaria and other health issues with a doctor or travel health service |
| • | A basic medical kit |
| • | Supplies of your regular medication |
| • | An understanding of what you can and can't carry on the plane |
| • | Avoid undercooked meat and seafood, raw vegetables and salad |
| • | Boil or purify drinking water if in doubt |
| • | Ensure cooked food is served steaming hot |
| • | Cover exposed skin under permethrin- impregnated mosquito nets and use insect repellent especially in known malaria areas. Daytime mosquito protection is needed in areas of risk for dengue fever. |
| • | Practice safe sex |
| • | Wear seatbelts |
| • | Avoid being bitten by mammals as rabies can be transmitted |
| • | Avoid swimming in rivers and lakes where bilharzia (schistosomiasis) infection occurs |
| • | Well Travel Health Tips |
| • | Check out www.welltogo.com.au, which provides a comprehensive guide to travel health |
| • | Hepatitis A |
| • | Hepatitis B |
| • | Cholera |
| • | Diphtheria |
| • | Influenza |
| • | Japanese encephalitis |
| • | Malaria (not an immunisation) |
| • | Measles, mumps, rubella |
| • | Meningococcal meningitis |
| • | Pertussis |
| • | Polio |
| • | Rabies |
| • | Tetanus |
| • | Tuberculosis (BCG) |
| • | Typhoid fever |
| • | Varicella (chickenpox) |
| • | Yellow fever |
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At least six weeks before you travel, talk to your doctor or travel health clinic about any immunisations required for your trip. The Travel Doctor offer up-to-date vaccination and travel health advice and current health alerts for overseas travel.
 YHA members receive 10% off vaccines and products from all Travel Doctor clinics across Australia. |
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