Travelturtle – Free Professional Travel
Health Advice
@Long beach island, NJ Photo by: Nic Oatridge
When
it comes to browsing the internet for health advice it’s hard to know who to
trust – any loony can claim to be a doctor online, plus there’s that niggling
detail that most websites aren’t benevolent sources of useful information but
want to make money. The
site I’m reviewing this week provides advice on travel health, from inoculations
and drugs to diseases; and while its objective is to profit, it can only do so
by providing comprehensive and reliable information about travel health,
something that’s lacking on the internet at the moment. Called
Travelturtle, the site
has gleaned information from its sister site, Pulse, an online resource for
GPs, so its advice has been provided by certified medical practitioners. The
most sought-after information about travel health is vaccination advice. On the
site this is organised by country and date of travel, which is sensible enough.
There is also further probing on the type of travel – whether you’ll leave the
relatively sanitised environment of hotels for rural areas, for example,
thereby increasing your risk of infection. This
is valid questioning and the advice is comprehensive, but on comparison with a
recent trip I made to a travel clinic to seek advice on visiting rural
Thailand, there are some omissions. These include specific location details –
diseases don’t respect international borders, which means the precise location should be taken
account of in the investigation: travellers don’t want to have vaccinations
they don’t really need.
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article1840483.ece
Advisory note from one of our staff who recently visited India:
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