Many travellers believe they are fully covered against disease once they are vaccinated for their holiday. If visiting a malaria zone, travellers will be provided with anti-malarial tablets. However even with Malaria the advice does [...]

An outbreak of measles is currently affecting several islands in the Pacific. Travellers should check for possible new entry requirements. Islands including American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Republic of Marshall Islands and Tokelau have introduced new [...]

Dengue is a mosquito spread virus commonly found in urban and semi-urban tropical areas of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the Pacific Islands. Dengue is a mosquito spread virus commonly found [...]

Two people were recently treated for Diphtheria in Lothian/Edinburgh, Scotland. This is despite the area having a childhood vaccination rate of 98%. Both patients had recently been travelling. At Global Health Travel we follow TravelhealthPro/NHS [...]

Occasionally we receive calls from patients who contact their GP practice about a post exposure rabies risk, but are not managed urgently and in some cases are referred back to a travel clinic or A&E. [...]

Meningitis B There has been a recent death at Bath Spa University. Additionally, a local Surrey school had a near death experience with a student, which is a suspected case of Meningitis B. As part [...]