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Considering Travel Vaccines As We Approach World Immunization Week

April 24-30 is World Immunization Week – a week that aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages from preventable diseases. This protection is offered to both those living in countries where preventable diseases are prevalent and those who travel to those areas, countries and regions. In this instance, protection is through the form of travel vaccinations.

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Travel Vaccination Facts for International Fact-Checking Day

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April 2 marks International Fact-checking Day – a day on which to focus on the facts and not on misinformation. It is also perhaps one on which we should concentrate on putting as much data behind factual-information as possible, with the assistance of 21st century ways of doing things, such as the advanced Pinpoint Travel Health vaccine and antimalarial planning service.

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Tick Off a TBE Vaccination if Your Travel Plans Require One

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March 25-31 is Tick Bite Prevention Week in the UK, which largely focuses on Lyme Disease and preventing tick bites and their impacts on pets. But whilst this is a serious insect-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly for animals, not as much attention seems to be focused on the human impacts of Tick-borne Encephalitis (TBE).

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Does Your Travel or Aid Work Plan Require a TB Vaccination?

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TB continues to be a significant global health threat, which is why March 24 is marked with an annual World TB Day, to raise awareness of tuberculosis. This is a disease that might not seem to pose a threat in the UK but, each year, some UK travellers require a tuberculosis vaccination to safeguard their health abroad.

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How to Simplify Travel Vaccination and Antimalarial Planning

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March 3 marks Simplify Your Life Day – a day in the calendar that is all about offering easy tips and tricks to allow us all to live a simpler life. Given that the Pinpoint Travel Health system is all about simplifying the travel vaccination and antimalarial pre-trip planning process, we thought we should get reference this day and hopefully help simplify the lives of more people.

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Gap Year Guide for Those With a True ‘Carpe Diem’ Mentality

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Did you know that there is a ‘Carpe Diem Day’ on February 26? The first known use of the phrase ‘carpe diem’ was way back in Roman times, when the poet Horace used it, in Odes 23. For him, it was not about ‘seizing the day’ but ‘plucking the day’. Either way, it meant living life to the full, just as thousands of gap year travellers do each year.

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Cut Out Travel Health Gambles for The Gambia

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Looking for somewhere different to go on holiday this year, to perhaps escape a situation where you feel unwanted in Spain, or maybe to just find some guaranteed sunshine and lovely warm temperatures? If that’s the case, and you still want to keep within a fairly modest budget, The Gambia may well catch your eye. With TUI, Thomas Cook, Love Holidays, First Choice and many others all offering packaged holidays to The Gambia, it may well be on the radar, but what travel health considerations will you find here, perhaps differing widely from those required for the Costas?

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Box Clever With Travel Health if Planning a ‘Different’ Holiday in 2025

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Around 14 million Brits will most likely be searching for holidays this festive season, if 2023’s pattern is repeated.[1] Boxing Day is always a popular one on which to spend the festive cash that Santa delivered, or that Christmas bonus, but what other costs might travellers have to factor into their holiday budget? Pinpoint Travel Health has a few thoughts.

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Typhoid: the Victorian disease still requiring travel vaccination protection

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On December 14, 1861, Prince Albert, the beloved husband of Queen Victoria, passed away at the age of 42, with cause of death being typhoid fever. Whilst that may be a disease we associate with those times, it is actually one still suffered by 9 million people a year and a cause of 110,000 deaths.

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Remember the Hawaii Example When Planning Travel Vaccines

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On August 21, 2024 it will be 65 years since Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States. Located over 5 hours away from the US mainland by plane, it’s a state that differs greatly form the other states that hoist the Star Spangled Banner. With its own climate, culture and identity, it’s perfectly

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