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Senior Citizen Travel & Vacation
CDC Updates Health Book with New Advice for
International Travelers
New Yellow Book highlights ordinary and
extraordinary hazards
July 25, 2007 - The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has released an updated version of the "Yellow Book," the
definitive guide to healthy international travel. The newest edition of
the "Yellow Book" provides information on a range of health risks from
the ordinary sunburns, auto accidents and travelers′ diarrhea to the
extraordinary avian flu and natural disasters.
New features include an expanded section on
preventing injuries and life-threatening blood clots that develop while
sitting for hours on a plane, as well as the latest recommendations for
immunizations and malaria prevention. The biennial health guide, named
for its yellow cover, is officially titled "Health Information for
International Travel" and serves as the authoritative guide for travel
health recommendations.
"More than 63 million Americans travel abroad each
year. This book can help prepare travelers for their trips, or help them
learn how to stay safe and healthy while overseas," said Dr. Christie
Reed, team lead for CDC′s travelers′ health group.
"The Yellow Book serves as the gold standard of
travel health recommendations. We want travelers, health care providers
and those in the travel industry to have the best information and health
care recommendations for traveling abroad."
New features include an expanded section on
injuries and auto accidents and tips for avoiding deep vein thrombosis
on long international flights.
Because injuries and auto accidents are the
greatest risk to travelers, the Yellow Book stresses the importance of
wearing seatbelts when driving in foreign countries.
The book also advises people to make efforts to
stretch their legs and arms on long international flights to help
prevent deep vein thrombosis. And it has information that can help the
more than 10 million people who take cruise vacations each year protect
themselves against norovirus (a highly contagious gastrointestinal
illness) and motion sickness.
Additional new features in the 2007-2008 Yellow
Book include:
● Recommendations on traveling to countries that
have experienced limited, non-pandemic human avian influenza cases
● Updated immunization guidelines
● New developments in the prevention and treatment of malaria
● Detailed information of skin problems travelers may experience
● Health risks and recommendations for humanitarian workers
Popular recurring features include recommendations
for:
● Pre- and post- travel health care
● Managing underlying and chronic conditions while traveling
● Jet lag
● Cruise ship travel
● Travelers with disabilities
● Recent immigrants returning home to visit friends and relatives
● Traveling with infants and children
● International adoptions
"This book contains must-have information for the
traveling public including families, students, missionaries and
volunteers, multinational corporations, the travel industry, as well as
for doctors, nurses and pharmacists," Reed said.
The Yellow book also is available free online.
To access the Yellow Book online, or to find
additional information on travelers′ health, go to
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/.
The companion Web site lets travelers look up
specific information by travel destination and view or print custom
reports based on individual travel plans. The site is one of CDC′s
most-visited Web sites. It is updated constantly as travel health
threats emerge and new information becomes available.
The Yellow Book, offered by major health publisher
Elsevier, is also now available at bookstores, through Internet book
sellers or by contacting Elsevier at 1-800-545-2522 or online at
www.us.elsevierhealth.com.
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