Holidays and travel: prevention of health risks

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What should you know before going on a trip? iStock / CentralITAlliance

By: Igor Strauss

As the summer holidays approach, we evoke pathologies linked to travel, climate changes as well as health and infectious context. It is also important, when leaving far from home, to think ahead, when undergoing treatment for a chronic illness.

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What should you know before leaving? Who do you ask? Which vaccines for which destinations? What precautions can we take once there? What are the essentials of the first aid kit?

  • Pr Christophe Rapp, infectious disease specialist at the American hospital in Neuilly and president of the travel medicine association
  • Pendaye Sidibé, vice-president of the association "Excision, let's talk about it ” which fights against female genital mutilation

At the end of the broadcast, we find the anti-sedentary physical activity session with Dr Jean-Marc Sène , sports doctor and doctor of the French judo team.

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