travel vaccinations

How to Simplify Travel Vaccination and Antimalarial Planning

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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Safari Vaccination and Malaria Advice for African Wildlife Holidays

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It’s 65 years since the ‘Born Free’ novel detailed Joy Adamson’s true-life story of raising Elsa the lion cub, in Kenya. That book, the subsequent movie and then the Meryl Streep epic, ‘Out of Africa’, all helped create a desire to head to the African savanna and live the safari dream. But if that’s your burning wish this year, what travel vaccination planning do you need to do and what malaria precautions might you need to take?

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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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Don’t Suffer One of the Traveller’s Health Curses in Egypt

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80 years ago, the world was gripped by The Mummy’s Curse movie, released on December 22, 1944. The film was evidence of a fascination in Egypt and its heritage, something which still exists all these decades later, with over half a million Brits visiting Egypt annually.

But if you travel to Egypt, whether to track down the pharaohs or cruise the Nile, what travel health situations need to be considered and what vaccinations do you need for Egypt?

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