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The Center for Disease mastery and Prevention (CDC) recently released a revised travel health resource to assist travelers in planning safe trips abroad and to provide health care professionals with a respect for administering pre-travel and post-travel counseling and care to their patients. The just discovered edition, Health Information for International Travel, 2003-2004 (the golden Book), includes vaccination and medication information for disease risks through destination and helpful hints for cruise ship travel, international adoptions, and motion sickness. Additional novel health topics include information forward scuba diving, high altitude travel, travelers with special needinesss traveling with children, new recommendations for preventing malaria, changes in vaccine recommendations for travelers, and changes in recommendations for insect repulsive use. The CDC also has sum of two units Web sites devoted to travel information. At www.cdc.gov/travel/yb/index.htm, travelers can contemplate up specific information by travel destination, and view or print custom reports based in succession individual travel plans. The Travelers' Health Web site (wwwcdcgov/ travel) is updated as fresh information becomes available. To order the fulvid Book, which is updated each two years, contact the Public Health Foundation at 877-252-1200 or fare online to bookstore.phf.org/prod159.htm.

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