Malaria and Travel Links
| CDC's
"Preventing Malaria in Travelers Every healthy traveler's first stop, the Center for Disease Control's web site is a must-read for information on malaria prevention and any other matter related to healthy traveling. CDC's Anti-Malarial Drugs Pages An easy to understand guide to antimalarial drugs, their use, side effects, and contraindications. World Health Organization's Malaria Fact Sheet Explains just how deadly malaria is in the developing world. WHO's Vaccination Requirements and Health Advice A great resource for travel vaccination requirements and recommendations. Malaria: A Reemerging Disease in Africa An article in "Emerging Infectious Disease" that describes the burden of malaria on Africa and how migration is making it worse. Travel Clinic's Malaria Prevention A commercial link to malaria prevention LP's "Thorn Tree" Bulletin Board Use this site to plan a trip to the developing world where travel situations change literally overnight. Choose the region you are interested in, put up a "post" containing questions about a country ("Where's a good, cheap place to stay in Katmandu?") and within 72 hours, somebody in the world will answer your question. If you know the answer to somebody else's question, please reply. The independent travel publisher's website Fielding's Guide to the World's Most Dangerous Places A fascinating book about the world's most dangerous places to travel. U.S. State Department's Travel Warnings Take these with a grain of salt. Remember, Uncle Sam's paranoid. |

Last Modified June 1, 2000