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This Saturday afternoon, the Socceroos will learn who they play in the first round of the World Cup in Brazil next year.

Dengue fever, Chikungunya fever, Zika fever… 

By Dr Eddy Bajrovic, Medical Director, Travelvax Australia.

By Dr Eddy Bajrovic, Medical Director of Travelvax Australia.

Travel doctors get lots of questions from women about taking the contraceptive pill while travelling overseas. I’ll answer the most common ones.

Schoolies. For school leavers it’s the let-your-hair-down rite of passage keenly anticipated all year. For their parents, the very word is filled with dread – especially when it involves a foreign country.

By Dr Eddy Bajrovic, Medical Director of Travelvax Australia.

For those living with heart disease, diabetes or some other chronic illness, the prospect of travelling overseas can seem as daunting as climbing Everest.

Returning to your country of origin to visit family and friends may seem like a ‘safe’ travel option. However, these ‘homecoming holidays’ often involve much higher health risks than other types of leisure travel – both for the traveller and the community they return to after their trip.

Mosquitoes, ticks, mites, flies, fleas, and lice are more than simply annoying. Their bite can pass on serious, sometimes fatal, infectious diseases.

More Australians are travelling overseas than ever before – 8 million left our shores in 2012. But, too many simply adopt a ‘she’ll be right, mate’ approach to their personal safety and health, and when they get into trouble expect our under-resourced consular service to come to their rescue.

So what, I hear you say, we don't have rabies in Australia.
That's true. But, travel overseas to just about any country and there are lots of reasons to keep this deadly disease in mind.

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By Dr Eddy Bajrovic, Medical Director, Travelvax Australia.