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Traveling Healthy

July 4, 2011 by kidstra
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Polio in Russia.  Measles in France. E. coli in Germany. Diseases that are particularly harmful to children. Diseases that you thought you would no longer hear much about are popping up in countries where you least expect to find them. Health-wise, is foreign travel become more hazardous?   1. On the contrary. Foreign travel is […]

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Air travel/infants and children/ importance of vaccination

August 1, 2010 by kidstra
Infants Air Travel

Are your children’s vaccinations up-to-date before traveling by air? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in the past year alone there were more than 3,000 known airline passengers traveling while ill with a contagious disease.   1. The aircraft cabin environment abets the spread of disease-causing microorganisms. Infected passengers cough up, sneeze out […]

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