Foreign Travel Advice

Study finds 44% of foreign travelers ignore health advice.
The Chicago Tribune /Detroit Free Press (3/11, Creager) reports that a "new study published in the Journal of Travel Medicine in December found that 44 percent of international travelers don't seek any health advice before their trips." The study indicates that about 36 percent of travelers take diarrhea medication with them, and 20 percent of travelers going to malaria risk countries take malaria medication. According to the World Health Organization, about 30,000 travelers every year are affected by malaria, which "kills 890,000 people every year, mostly children in Africa" and "makes 250 million people sick each year."