Chapter Seven

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Official inoculation and health recommendations for international travelers. Online database includes updated international health news and travel health tips for every country in the world. A great starting point for health and vaccination information about your destination.

Travel Health Online
Well-organized and comprehensive health website for travelers. Gives extensive listings on individual countries, including level of medical care, economic/political standing, vaccination issues, and possible health concerns.

Lonely Planet Health Check
Well-organized online health guide, including pre-departure health planning information, women's health concerns, and specific disease information. Lonely Planet also publishes a "Healthy Travel" series of small, easy-to-pack health guides, with separate volumes for Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America.

Travel health books

Shitting Pretty: How to Stay Clean and Healthy While Traveling, by Jane Wilson-Howarth (Travelers' Tales, May 2000)
A humorous, sympathetic approach to travel health, including tips on how to avoid diarrhea, parasites, and all manner of tropical diseases.

Staying Healthy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, by Dirk Schroeder (Avalon Travel, 2000)
Easy-to-pack and user-friendly handbook to travel health in developing countries.

The Pocket Doctor: A Passport to Healthy Travel, by Stephen Bezruchka (Mountaineers Books, March 1999)
A small, easy-to-pack guide to identifying and avoiding ailments on the road.

Rough Guide to Travel Health, by Nick Jones, Pema Sanders, Charles Easmon (Rough Guides, 2001).
Includes a section on pre-trip health planning, an encyclopedia of health problems, and an international section dedicated to specific countries' health risks.