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Globe News: Interactive Travel Planner launches

The Interactive Travel Planner has arrived! It provides you, the traveller, with definitive plain-English advice on a range of complex international health issues.

Know the facts about your destination’s recommended vaccines, malaria risk and yellow fever entry requirements. Essential tips discuss common travel-health problems (e.g. jetlag) and how to best manage them while away. All this is to a stunning backdrop of client contributed photos from around the Globe.

The Interactive Travel Planner has been created by the clever people at Globe Medical. We hope you find it exciting and useful.

Polio Case from Pakistan

A recently diagnosed case of polio in a returned student from Pakistan highlights the need for all travellers to make sure their routine immunisations are current. According to news reports, a 22 year old student living in Melbourne was admitted to hospital with fever, vomiting and muscles aches and pains consistent with a possible viral infection.

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Vaccinations for Travel

Vaccinations are an important aspect of your pre-departure preparation and should be considered 4-6 weeks prior to travel. Pre-departure vaccinations will provide protection against diseases that are more common at your overseas destinations than at home, and comply with national health authority requirements.

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