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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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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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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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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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