Physician Advice on Travel Vaccinations and Travel Health
Posted in Swine Flu on Feb 14th, 2010
Travelogue is pleased once again to feature guest blogger, Erik McLaughlin, M.D. an experienced travel writer and an expert in travel medicine. When Erik talks, travelers listen. He is a physician member of Travel Clinics of America. Travel is exciting. It puts into close contact with new people, new locations, new foods and new cultures. [...]
Posted in Swine Flu, Travel Vaccinations, Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2010
Travelogue is pleased to feature guest blogger, Erik McLaughlin, M.D. an experienced travel writer and an expert in travel medicine. When Erik talks, travelers listen. He is a physician member of Travel Clinics of America. Most people who are not living in a cave have heard about the H1N1 virus (formerly known as swine flu). [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on Jan 7th, 2010
My wife and I are both immune to H1N1. Here’s how we did it. I received the H1N1 vaccine She got sick with H1N1 disease Both of these methods are effective. Which method would you prefer? As a physician, I recommend the H1N1 vaccination strategy, but the choice is yours. The public health authorities and [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on Dec 6th, 2009
Scammers have always been among us. In the old days, we had snake oil salesmen that promised us that their placebos were really cures. Today, in the cyberage, the practice has gone viral. By the time that an internet scam has been exposed, it may already have reached millions of us. How many will be [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on Oct 13th, 2009
Just yesterday, two nurses approached me and asked if my kids would be getting the H1N1 vaccine. These ladies are medical professionals. Both worked many years as intensive care unit nurses. They believed in and practiced modern medicine. Why did they have hesitancy about the vaccine for their kids? The H1N1 virus has created two [...]
Posted in Swine Flu, Travel Sites on Sep 1st, 2009
The only country in the world that requires that international travelers receive the bacterial meningitis vaccine is Saudi Arabia. This is to protect the Saudi public, not the individual traveler. International travelers to many other foreign destinations also need the bacterial meningitis vaccine. Millions of Muslim pilgrims will head to Mecca this year for the the Hajj [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on Jul 31st, 2009
The fear of swine flu, the H1N1 virus, has decreased. A few months ago, the swine flu pandemic was front page news all over the world. Everyone was worried that he might be struck by this dreaded H1N1 virus. Many schools were closed and many people avoided public places like the plague. Experts, however, warn us to [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on Jun 12th, 2009
This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) belatedly announced that the H1N1 virus, formerly known as swine flu, is now a worldwide pandemic. WHO seemed to have dragged its feet on making this call, perhaps in an effort to avoid creating global anxiety. What does this mean for Americans? Not much. H1N1 already exists in [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on May 8th, 2009
Yikes! Will she put our patients at risk? I already posted about my nurse Adrienne who had the misfortune of planning to travel to Mexico last week just as swine flu, now called influenza A(H1N1), was rearing its ugly snout. As newspaper headlines become more ominous, and our own government counseled against non-essential travel, and [...]
Posted in Swine Flu on May 5th, 2009
When swine flu swooped down upon us from our southern neighbor, the scapegoat gate swung open. First, pigs were blamed and countries all over the world banned pork. Although scientists reassured us that ham sandwiches were not toxic, grunting politicians needed to reassure their publics that they were taking all (un)necessary means to protect them. [...]
