Article: Deadly dangers that lie in wait for unwary visitors to foreign climes around the world.

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 ...

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