World Travel Health Guide

There is no point in travelling anywhere if on arrival you find you cannot get into the country due to not having the requisite medical certificates, or, having successfully arrived, fall prey to a local illness and have your trip ruined. There are many traps for the unwary: some quite surprising countries make an equally surprising level of medical demands of the prospective traveller from the UK. Enquiries to travel agents and similar enquiry agencies are not always dealt with accurately and even a phone call to the relevant embassy might not be taken by somebody who actually knows their...