What a rest! Dangerous diseases you can catch abroad

Summer is the holiday season, but at the same time it is also the season of dangerous diseases that people, often without knowing it, bring with them from abroad. But you really want your vacation to be without “adventures”! How to recognize common diseases among tourists and in which countries they are most common, read below.

Intestinal disorders are a common companion of vacationers, and they can be cured quite easily. But yellow fever, which is most often found in South America, is much more dangerous - the mortality rate from this virus is about 20%.

Fever is carried by both people and mosquitoes, so even if you avoid communicating with potential patients and visiting busy places, you cannot be 100% sure of your safety. The best solution in this case would be vaccination before travel.

The fastest way to catch dysentery is to eat unwashed market fruits and vegetables, as tourists often do to save money. Usually, simple activated charcoal and pancreatin help combat unpleasant signs of poisoning. But with hepatitis A it’s more complicated...

There is no specific way to treat it. However, symptoms of hepatitis can appear within 40 weeks after the onset of the disease. The virus is transmitted through the fecal-oral route, most often in places where sanitary conditions are not maintained. On vacation, a regular swimming pool can become a haven for the virus if the water in it is not changed often enough.

You can catch typhus at a regular market in Egypt - in extreme heat, even sweets with a long shelf life spoil in a few hours. It’s easy to guess what happens to the rest of the food...

The risk of contracting rabies is highest in Tunisia. Here you can get it from bats, which sometimes like to bite the ubiquitous tourists.

Schistosomiasis and amebic encephalitis are quite rare and dangerous diseases caused by parasites. As a rule, they are found in India. It’s no secret that in some regions of this country they have not even heard of such a concept as “sanitary standards”.

Therefore, if you eat in India, even fresh and thoroughly washed vegetables, you risk getting amoebic encephalitis. And by swimming in the local pond, you increase your chances of contracting schistosomiasis.

If you ever plan a trip to Africa, Mexico or Asia, you should be wary of the bites of seemingly ordinary mosquitoes, which can pose a deadly threat here.

Zika virus, dengue fever, malaria - all these dangerous diseases are carried by mosquitoes. The greatest threat is observed in the countries of Central Africa, for example, in Kenya.

It is generally accepted that you can only catch worms through food. In fact, these dangerous parasites can enter your body even when you are walking barefoot or lying on the sand. Especially if it’s a beach somewhere in Cuba or Cyprus.

Leptospirosis and camel flu, which was previously described as a deadly virus that poses a huge threat to humanity, are usually found in the United Arab Emirates. The first disease is carried by rodents, and you can catch it without washing your hands before eating. The second, as you may have guessed, occurs when riding camels and is transmitted by airborne droplets.

Camel influenza, or MERS, as it is also called, belongs to the group of coronaviruses and causes influenza-like illnesses in humans. The main danger of MERS is that there is still no vaccine in the world that can protect against it, and the mortality rate from the disease is about 50%.

Diseases that are predominantly sexually transmitted are not separated by geography - you can catch them anywhere if you do not follow the rules of safe sex. But still, most often, sexually transmitted diseases are given as a “souvenir” to travelers from exotic Asian countries, for example, Thailand.

Do you take care of your health? What precautions do you take while on vacation?