Diseases & Disasters and Safety-Health Guide - Travel and Review

Giardia
Giardia prevention and symptoms while backpacking and trekking across the world. Tips on the nasty bug.
 
Henna Page
Dangers regarding getting a Black Henna tattoo.
 
Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude
No matter what Timothy Leary said, there is such a thing as a bad high and this site lets you know all the excruciating details of climbing too high too fast.
 
CASKE 2000
From crocodiles to cone shells, Jean-Philippe Soulé's talks tough about the dangers of those shapes in the water and what to do if you're stung, bitten or attacked.
 
International Aviation Safety
Put your mind at rest (or maybe not) and check out what countries meet minimum International Aviation Safety requirements.
 
Highway To Health
This is a site that lays on health care professionals coast-to-coast and city-to-city. Choose your city and then click to find all the health-related info (ambulance and emergency numbers, hospitals, pharmacy information) for that city
 
Dr Thom's Sex eClinic
An on-line provider of free information and advice on sexually transmitted diseases.
 
The High Altitude Guide
It's the guide to have if you're going to interesting but oxygen-deprived places.
 
African Medical and Research Foundation
It's a handy resource for those thinking of travelling around Africa.
 
MASTA
Good advice about food, water, sun and sex (the safe kind that is).
 
Passport to Death
So what are your chances of coming home in a box? Get the bad news - death rates for plane travel, motor travel, disease, kidnapping and terrorism - straight-up.
 
Aspivenin
Proof that death by frog tongue-lashing is an exotic but ultimately humiliating way to go. This site can help you avoid exactly this scenario and gets you up to speed on slimy, crawling, scuttling, slithery creatures that bite and sting.
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Itï¾’s all about making disease easy: just click on the map to match a country and its most prevalent diseases or click on 'Disease' for the A-Z of it all.
 
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