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broken, and although “swine flu” is clearly the major travel medicine health issue of the day, I don’t really feel I can address that issue in this article because with every outbreak like this, there is a very good chance that much of what we |
| hard slogging and editing to write one of these columns, the truth is that I get a list of assignments from my editor at the beginning of every year and I never look at that list again, until that is, the day, once every month, when my editor leaves me an angry voice mail (he has to use voice mail since I never answer when I see his name on call display) screaming that, “Hey, you owe me that |
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think we know about the matter in the early days will end up being not nearly as true as we thought.
.....So instead of discussing “swine flu”, let me instead focus on some of what you should and can do before you leave home for a vacation trip (assuming that you can still visit wherever you want to visit).
.....Thus, the first obvious piece of advice whenever you |
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article for (fill in the blank), and you’re already a week overdue,” which is when I reluctantly sit down to write the item I’ve been consigned.
Trouble is, though, as I said earlier, the subject matter of each article is decided much earlier in the year, although in the past, that’s never been a problem because thankfully, medicine generally moves very, very slowly, but for once, that’s not the case.
.....You see, this time my pre-assigned topic-of-the-month, “travel medicine”, was chosen months ago and that’s turning out to be a major headache because I happen to be sitting down to write this just 3 days after the “swine flu” story has |
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travel, even to Spuzzum, or worse, to Calgary, is to inform yourself thoroughly about the health conditions and health risks of your destination, but don’t be surprised if a lot of what you find is not nearly as definitive as you would like it to be.
.....For example, my wife and I visited the incredibly beautiful island of Bali in Indonesia not too long ago, and although it was pretty easy to decide what we needed to do about the immunizations and prophylactic medications (nothing), when it came to the matter of whether we should drink the water in Bali, the advice we got (from the |
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