My Travel Medicine Journey

This week we are covering pretravel advise for travelers going to armed conflict zones.  This is not recommended but if someone must go, in addition to regular pretravel suggestions, this is the advice from the US Department of State: “In our country Travel Advisories, we advise you to not travel to high-risk countries or areas due to local conditions and/or our limited ability to provide consular services in those places.  You should strongly consider not going to them at all….

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Today I’m going to cover traveling for business.  Section 06 is mostly concerned with the pretravel assessment but there are during and post travel considerations as well.  According to the CDC Yellow Book business travel is projected to grow and although this was written pre-covid it may still be true in spite of the amount of online communications that are now occurring.  The Yellow Book differentiates between small/midsize companies and large ones with the expectation that the large companies are…

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