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The news is just starting to seep in about a few planeloads returning from Cuba, Holguin to be more specific, full of sunburned Canadians with vomiting and diarrhea. While this story would always be of interest to me, it is even more exciting as I take off for Cuba with my son, Michael, of The [...]

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One of my first trips to Africa was about 15 years ago. At that time, VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas – now CUSO-VSO) Canada, of which I was, and still am, the medical advisor, sent me over to visit our Canadian volunteers. This took me on a three week whirlwind trip around Kenya and Tanzania. Two [...]

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I remember the good old days. That was back in the 70s when I was backpacking through South America in search of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (that’s a movie with Paul Newman and Robert Redford) in Bolivia. If my loving parents wanted to know how I was doing, I would call collect, asking for a [...]

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To keep up my credibility as a well-travelled travel medicine specialist, I should be shlepping through Botswana in pursuit of malaria, schistosomiasis, HIV/AIDS and tickbite fever. Instead, I will be off to the 12th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine in Boston next week. I shouldn’t need any shots, antimalarials and I assume I [...]

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Most travel patients that I see are fairly straightforward – they are healthy and the world is their oyster. But there are many others who would like the world to be their oyster, but they have significant medical problems. In the past week, I have seen travellers with the following: I’m pregnant, or I might [...]

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