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Whether traveling to the tropics for business or pleasure, you should be aware of potential hazards, including tropical diseases. The following are recommendations to follow to avoid contracting a tropical disease.

Be sure to bring this list of recommendations to the physician performing the 6-weeks before leaving the meeting. Your doctor you can go over them and let them know that diseases are active in the area to travel.

The first step to take is to identify tropical diseases in the area to be to travel. Como – example of yellow fever is a tropical disease in tropical South America Panama Canal and sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, 11 countries in Latin American and 33 African countries have active cases of yellow fever. Most cases of yellow fever occur in sub-Saharan Africa.

Receive available vaccines is a preventive measure that your doctor can explain to you and give you.

You have to keep your International Vaccination Certificate (ICV) in your passport to prove they have been vaccinated. The vaccine should be given no later than 10 days before entering a country for the disease active.

Malaria is one of the most common tropical diseases and can be employed both in rural as well as cities.

Malaria is a disease highly curable if caught early detection, early diagnosis and treatment are important.

Here are some tips from a traveler must followed to prevent malaria:

1. First, take anti-malaria medication when it is in an area free of risk

2. Avoid bites using insect repellent containing DEET

3. Wear long-sleeved

4. Do not wear perfumes or colognes

5. Sleeping in the interior of a room air-conditioning or, if this is not possible to sleep under a good quality network of mosquitoes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has a policy that indicates that immunization against cholera is no longer required for travelers.

Tips for safe travel in the tropics patients:

1. Take malaria pills

2. Avoid mosquito bites

3. Use sunscreen when traveling to tropical climates to prevent damaged skin burns can be an entry point for disease-causing agents.

4. Avoid ice, salads and reheated food, seafood and food from street vendors should also be avoided, and any food that has been left outside unattended.

5. If you are traveling to the Caribbean, South America, Africa or the Middle East or
Southeast Asia even then do not swim in fresh water unless you know for sure that is free of biharzia (schistosomiasis)

6. Avoid walking barefoot, parasites can be contracted that way. This is good advice for anywhere in the world not only from the tropics.

7. Use condoms when having sex with strangers and avoid oral-anal sex, which can expose you to diseases, including tropical.

8. Use any air conditioning to sleep or good quality sleep a network for the protection from mosquitoes. It is also convenient spray every window screens with insect repellent.

Use these recommendations and advice of your doctor and you should be able to prevent tropical diseases spoil your trip.

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