A bit overwrought...
In her column in today's Wall Street Journal, Laura Landro reminds us that Swine flu is the least of the health problems that travelers may encounter this summer. Here's an excerpt:
While swine flu has dominated the news as a concern for travelers,
experts say other infectious diseases pose a far greater threat as the
summer travel season gets under way. Especially worrisome are
mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, Japanese
encephalitis, chikungunya fever and yellow fever, which are now
spreading in areas where they weren't previously a danger. Travelers
are also at increased risk for intestinal and skin-burrowing parasites,
tick-borne diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid fever and
the age-old scourge, traveler's diarrhea.
The CDC's Yellow Book is the bible of travel medicine. You can find the online version here. A new edition comes out online shortly.
