Archive for the ‘travel health’ category

• Beware the Travellers’ Health Book! Tropical disease diary

  Aug 23, 16 • 3733 views • the muzungu • 2 comments

  Beware the Travellers’ Health Book! Tropical disease diary – Uganda travel health advice from the muzungu Or … “How not to do it” This month I have been bitten by Mango Flies and a spider. I have had Malaria and...

• How to avoid Bilharzia

  Jul 24, 13 • 9916 views • the muzungu • 3 comments

  You won’t always get Bilharzia if you swim in Lake Victoria and, if you do, it may take weeks, months or even twenty years for you to show symptoms. Bilharzia (also known as Schistosomiasis or snail fever) can be horrible. You will feel under the...

• How to avoid Malaria

  Jul 6, 13 • 16089 views • the muzungu • 3 comments

  How to avoid Malaria When I was a VSO volunteer, I was given a whole list of vaccinations (15 injections in total!) and a free supply of anti-Malarials, in the belief it was cheaper to medicate me than to repatriate me! I took the anti-Malarials...

• Ethiopia calling me – from my sickbed

  May 2, 11 • 13902 views • the muzungu • 7 comments

  Two days before I fly to Ethiopia, and I’m lying in bed with a temperature. I’ve a bed in Addis Ababa and someone to pick me up to the airport – but I still haven’t got a plane ticket. Some mix-up at the bank. My debit card was...

• Cholera outbreak in Nam’

  Oct 8, 09 • 5857 views • the muzungu • 9 comments

  It’s been raining heavily all day. The gutter is falling off the front of the house (not that the landlord cares) and Eva has a poloneck jumper on “It’s so COLD!” she says, while I sit here in the same light clothes and sandals I always...

• Advice from Nursie…

  Jan 30, 09 • 1494 views • the muzungu • 1 comment

  First day on training course, focusing on health and security, and not sure whether it was nerves or excitement but when I was asked to introduce myself to the group, my mind went blank! I couldn’t remember where I’m going!! A few...