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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.

Deployment Health Clinical Center - US Military Web resource providing information and assistance to military personnel post-deployment.

Flighthealth.org - Information about preventing flight health problems such as DVT, flight stress, jet lag and cosmic radiation.

Health Advice for Travelers - Health advice for travelers from the UK Department of Health. Broad interest to anyone doing any kind of international traveling to areas with infectious disease outbreaks.

Health Link: Flight Plans - Article by Russell Robertson provides general information about the steps travelers can take to avoid falling ill while on the plane.

Healthy Travel To Distant Lands - Provides disease information specific to international regions. Also travel tips, vaccination information, dealing with jet lag and traveler's diarrhea.

The Healthy Traveler - Redbook's interactive traveler's guide to staying healthy. Key features include a personalized health report and an archive of health related phrases spoken in several languages.

International Health Consultants - Medical, psychological, and cultural information for tourists and business travelers on various international topics.

International Medicine Center - A Houston, Texas-based provider of travel medicine services to corporations and individuals. Product and service details, news, and contact information.

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.

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.

MedlinePlus: Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infectious Diseases - Prevention measures and a regional list of specific diseases.

MedlinePlus: Traveler's Health - Directory of factsheets, news releases, and articles.

Mytraveldoctor - Provides detailed information about diseases, vaccinations recommended, prevention of illness, outbreaks on a country level following WHO's recommendations. In Danish and English.

Oxygen to Go - Portable oxygen for travelers dependent on supplemental oxygen.

Sara's Wish Foundation - International travel safety foundation, established in wake of a Semester at Sea accident, provides travel tips and safety guidelines.

Total Travel Clinic - Travel vaccinations and medical travel advice.

Travel Doctor - Provides travel medicine and vaccination services through Australia, New Zealand and SE Asian clinics. Travel health reports available for many destinations.

Travel Essentials New Zealand - Health reports for over 150 countries; recommended immunizations and vaccinations, traveler's health advice.

Travel Health Care - Advice on topics such as vaccination, malaria, insects, news, and events. Also a Sydney-based clinic offering travel medicine and vaccination services.

Travel Health Help - Explains how to avoid diseases using mosquito nets and discusses travel health issues like malaria and the West Nile virus.

Travel Healthcare - Provides international health advice and travel medicine and vaccination services to those intending to travel overseas.

Travel Medicine of Long Island - Pre-travel information based on specific medical condition and planned destinations.

Traveldoctor - Health advice regarding all travel destinations and durations with a focus on vaccines for tropical diseases.

TravelHealth UK - Practical advice on many topics, including preventing accidents, stress, insurance, family holidays, mature and disabled travelers, sexual health, and animal bites.

Traveling Diseases - Occurrence, manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases.

Traveling 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.

University of Maryland Health Tips for Travelers - Vaccine requirements, health conditions, and information on infectious disease outbreaks in foreign countries.

Vanderbilt International Travel Clinic - Provides before and after travel health information as well as disease prevention, medication instructions and a section on immunizations.

WHO International Travel and Health - World Health Organization's biannual publication on international travel and health

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.