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 and exhale these organisms. [...]

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The odds of your family returning home from a vacation with bedbugs are extremely small – but steadily increasing.
Bedbugs have been known for centuries. But in recent decades they have kept a low profile, restricting themselves to mostly seedy establishments. No more. They are popping up all over the world, sometimes in the plushest of [...]

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