Article: Airline News - Asia / Pacific.

Oct 25, 2009

Travel extending beyond 6 months is associated with health risks not usually encountered among short-term travelers, new data indicate. Issues of most concern for long-term travelers are psychological problems and diseases caused by parasites. "Few studies have compared the types and causes of illness in travelers on the basis of duration of travel," Dr. Lin H. Chen, from the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and members of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network note the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Their study used data from ill travelers who visited GeoSentinel sites -- clinics on 6 continents that specialize in travel ...

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