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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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Travel Vaccination and Malaria Treatment Planning For Commonwealth Travel

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Monday March 10 marks Commonwealth Day, which will be celebrated across the Commonwealth, comprising 56 independent countries, inhabited by 2.7 billion people. Encompassing some of the richest and poorest countries in the world, the Commonwealth also features countries in which diseases are rife. Holiday or business trip planning for travel to many of these nations often requires travel vaccination or antimalarial treatments.

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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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Cholera, Typhoid and Other Diseases in Kipling’s Time and India Today

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On December 30, 1865, Rudyard Kipling – best known perhaps for being the author who produced the works on which Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’ were based – was born in Mumbai. Life for Kipling was not just a fantasy world with colourful characters, however.  Nineteenth century, colonial India, came with a distinct cholera and typhoid threat – severe travel health risks that still exist today, for those who go unvaccinated on trips to India.

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