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Article: Deadly dangers that lie in wait for unwary visitors to foreign climes around the world.
- Article from:
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- April 18, 1999
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SERIOUS diseases pose a risk to travellers abroad, especially those who have not done their homework.
The main conditions currently worth inquiring about through a travel clinic or GP include:
HEPATITIS: The four virus types, A, B, C and E, can be contracted worldwide.
A and E are caught by ingesting food and water contaminated with human faeces.
B and C are caught through contact with blood and body secretions of infected people.
Both can be sexually transmitted.
Precautions with food, water and sexual contact can ...