Objective. To identify whether a standardised Echinacea formulation is effective in the prevention of respiratory and other symptoms associated with long-haul flights. Methods. 175 adults participated in a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial travelling back from Australia to America, Europe, or Africa for a period of 1-5 weeks on commercial flights via economy class. Participants ...

4. Initiatives on the internalisation of external costs in transport should aim at ensuring that all health costs are taken into account, including physical inactivity. This should therefore be part of the future European initiatives which will be taken to ensure the full internalisation of external costs as foreseen by the European Commission‘s White Paper on transport. 3 WHO’s health economic...

BACKGROUND Europeans represent the majority of international travellers and clinicians encountering returned patients have an essential role in recognizing, and communicating travel-associated public health risks. METHODS To investigate the morbidity of travel associated infectious diseases in European travellers, we analysed diagnoses with demographic, clinical and travel-related predictors ...

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international travel has become increasingly common and accessible, hence, about two billion passengers undertake international and domestic air travel each year. venous thromboembolism (vte) is a serious public health disorder which may occur following prolonged travel, especially after air travel. a direct relation between vte development and prolonged travels has been documented, while some ...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. Clinical manifestations of leishmaniasis include cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and visceral leishmaniasis (VL). About 90% of cases occur in the tropics or subtropics but the disease is also endemic in the Mediterranean area. No systematic analysis on leishmaniasis in travellers visiting endemic areas in ...

tp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.20 77-8939/a 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rig Travel in Latin America, a region with many destinations that pose health specific health risks for travelers, particularly tropical diseases, is increasing. Prevention of such travel-related illness, of necessity, includes appropriate accurate information provided by travel agents [1,2]. These are national and internationa...

The European integration processes is not losing its topicality to this day. It still remains as the important political challenge of 21st century in geopolitical area modern world. In these Georgia actively participating today too, it known an agreement association between and Union was signed summer 2014. This fact a landmark greatest historical importance for Georgian people. means returning...