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Now while we like to think we have all the info you'll need here at the Lost Luggage Tales, there is a bunch
of other stuff out there... Here are some the most helpful links we found when it came to planning our trips
and ones we've found since we've been home...
accommodation
· advice
· air travel
· airport parking
· apparel
· business travel
· blogs
· buses
· camping
· car rental
· communication
· cruises
· customs
· destinations
· diving
· embassies & visas
· employment
· etiquette
· expatriates
· festivals & events
· food & drink
· friends
· gap year
· gay & lesbian
· health
· hostels
· insurance
· language
· luggage
· luxury travel
· money
· packing
· photography
· power & electricity
· publications
· rail
· senior travel
· solo travel
· study abroad
· transportation
· travel agents
· travel books
· travel directory
· travel guides
· traveler homepages
· volunteer programs
· weather
· women's travel
· non travel sites
 Health & Safety
· Lost Luggage Healthy Travel Guide - all the resources and information you need to stay safe and healthy
· Medcan - Medcan Travel Clinics (hq'd in Canada) offer comprehensive risk assessments, health teaching and immunizations for travelers, including Yellow Fever designation.
· Shoreland Travel Health Online - You've had your shots but what about dental care? Eye prescriptions? Medication? Flying with a head cold? All this information is packaged up in the Traveler Health Concerns section.
· TMVC Healthy Travel - The company that verifies Lonely Planet's health material has a nifty country-by-country immunisation chart as well as heaps of information on travel and health.
· Travelvax - All the jabs you need to get the vax job done.
· WHO - The ever-reliable global health organisation supplies you with a country list of vaccination certificate requirements, as well as a global malarial update.
· African Medical and Research Foundation - It's a handy resource for those thinking of travelling around Africa.
· Aspivenin - Proof that death by frog tongue-lashing is an exotic but ultimately humiliating way to go. This site can help you avoid exactly this scenario and gets you up to speed on slimy, crawling, scuttling, slithery creatures that bite and sting.
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - It's all about making disease easy: just click on the map to match a country and its most prevalent diseases or click on 'Disease' for the A-Z of it all.
· Giardia - Giardia prevention and symptoms while backpacking and trekking across the world. Tips on the nasty bug.
· Henna Page - Dangers regarding getting a Black Henna tattoo.
· Highway To Health - This is a site that lays on health care professionals coast-to-coast and city-to-city. Choose your city and then click to find all the health-related info (ambulance and emergency numbers, hospitals, pharmacy information) for that city.
· Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude - No matter what Timothy Leary said, there is such a thing as a bad high and this site lets you know all the excruciating details of climbing too high too fast.
· Passport to Death - So what are your chances of coming home in a box? Get the bad news - death rates for plane travel, motor travel, disease, kidnapping and terrorism - straight-up.
· The High Altitude Guide - It's the guide to have if you're going to interesting but oxygen-deprived places.
· Aviation Health Institute - A charity providing information and funding research into the health issues faced by airline passengers.
· The Bathroom Diaries - A growing list of free public toilets around the world. Readers are invited to submit restrooms to the site. Includes an essay section.
· BBC Travel Health - The Travel Health web site is part of the BBC Health site offering information, advice and help on areas concerning global travel.
· Health Almanac for Travelers - Travel planning search engine for true choice of destinations to rest and recreation.
· Healthy Travel To Distant Lands - Provides disease information specific to a international regions. Also travel tips, vaccination information, dealing with jet lag and traveler's diarrhea.
· International Travel and Health - Vaccination requirements and health advice from WHO.
· International Travel Information - Preparation and understanding of current health risks for the area of your travels from bestofhealth.com.
· Lstm.org - Comprehensive site that includes: preventive and curative medicine within specialties such as tropical medicine, infectious diseases, high altitude physiology, travel related obstetrics, psychiatry, occupational health, military and migration medicine, and environmental health
· MASTA - Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad. Advice on avoiding disease risks.
· MD Travel Health - Health risks and services in many countries, infectious diseases and suggested immunizations, illness prevention, and special needs travelers.
· OffshoreMD - Offers online physician consultation service for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
· Passport Health - USA-based company offering travel health advice and consultations and country specific immunizations.
· Safemedication.com - Information on specific drugs, tips, and basic medicine
· Travel Doctor - Provides travel medicine and vaccination services through Australia, New Zealand and SE Asian clinics. Travel health reports available for many destinations.
· TravelHealth UK - Practical advice on many topics, including preventing accidents, stress, insurance, family holidays, mature and disabled travelers, sexual health, and animal bites.
· Travelling Well - Special reports available cover topics such as traveling in Australia, IBD, asthma, Q fever, Peru, and business travel. Also sales of a book on travel health by Dr Deborah Mills.
· Vanderbilt International Travel Clinic - Provides before and after travel health information as well as disease prevention, medication instructions and a comprehensive section on immunizations.
· The World Traveler - Provides information on international travel such as travel clinic locator, disease vaccine information for hepatitis A and B and others. Also links to CDC travel updates. Provided by GlaxoSmithKline.
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