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<body> <p>Health Links for travellers.</p> <table> <tr> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="1" vAlign="top" width="275"> <p align="left"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a name="#"Top"">Here</a> are some useful travel health resources and sites to help you before you go and while you are away. The best of the bunch are the following three:</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><b>WHO</b> <a href="http://www.who.ch" target="_blank">http://www.who.ch</a> - The official site of the<i> World Health Organization.</i></font></p> <p align="left"><b><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">CDC </font></b><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov" target="_blank">http://www.cdc.gov</a> - The official site of the <i>US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</i></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><b>MASTA </b><a href="http://www.masta.org" target="_blank">http://www.masta.org</a> - The <i>Medical Advisory Services for Travellers.</i></font></p> <p align="justify" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><b>Nomad Travel</b> </span></font><font color="#000080" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.nomadtravel.co.uk/">http://www.nomadtravel.co.uk</a> </font></span></font><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">Experts in preparing travellers of all types for their journey, particularly excelling with their knowledge and kit for tropical travel, over-landing and jungle expeditions. Supporting their shops that supply clothing, equipment & accessories, are specialist travel health pharmacies where they custom make medical kits & give out travel health advice as well as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>vaccination clinics for all pre-travel inoculations.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">Shops are located in North & Central London, Hertfordshire & Bristol.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US">Mail Order & Catalogue Requests – 00 44 (0)20 8889 7014</span></font></p> <font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Email – <a href="mailto:sales@nomadtravel.co.uk">sales@nomadtravel.co.uk</a></span></font> <p align="left"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">All these sites contain valuable and up to date information regarding vaccinations, epidemics & outbreaks, as well as other general advice on staying healthy.</font></p> </td> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="1" vAlign="top" width="216"> <ul> <li> <p align="left"><b><a href="jabs.htm" target="_top"><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">Vaccinations Page</font></a></b></p> </li> </ul> <p align="center">  <ul> </ul> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <p align="center"> </p> </td> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="1" vAlign="top"> <p align="right"> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" bgColor="#ffffff" height="30" vAlign="top" width="275"> </td> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="30" vAlign="top" width="216"> </td> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="30" vAlign="top" width="71"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" height="1" vAlign="top" width="275"><b><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="3">Other useful sites:</font></b> <p> </p> </td> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="1" vAlign="top" width="216"> </td> <td align="middle" bgColor="#ffffff" height="1" vAlign="top" width="71"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.tmvc.com.au/info10.thl" target="_blank">http://www.tmvc.com.au/info10.thl</a><font face="Arial"> </font>- Country by country vaccination guide</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.tmb.ie" target="_blank">http://www.tmb.ie</a></font><font color="#000080"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"> - Tropical Medicine Bureau</font></i><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>. </i></font></font><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">Irish clinic with free travel medicine advice</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.tripprep.com" target="_blank">http://www.tripprep.com</a> - Database of health & safety </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://travelhealth.com" target="_blank">http://travelhealth.com</a> - Travel Health Info Service. A very comprehensive guide</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/TravelMedicine" target="_blank">http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/TravelMedicine</a> </font><i><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">- Virtual Hospital.</font></i><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"> Advice centre</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/health.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lonelyplanet.com/health.htm</a> </font><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><i>- The Lonely Planet. </i></font><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">Health advice from the travel gurus.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.ifrc.org" target="_blank">http://www.ifrc.org</a> </font><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><i>- The National Red Cross. </i></font><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">Directory for 175 countries worldwide</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://freenet.uchsc.edu/2000/prevent/cancer/suntan/menu.html">http://freenet.uchsc.edu/2000/prevent/cancer/suntan/menu.html</a> - Do you <i>really</i> want that sun tan!</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="justify" bgColor="#ffffff" colSpan="3" height="1" vAlign="top" width="562"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">If you know of a particularly useful travel health web site then please </font><a href="mailto:tips@thetravellerslounge.com"><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">let us know</font></a><font color="#ff9999" face="Arial" size="2">.</font></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </body>