2 American Airlines Offering Refunds For Travel To Zika Areas

Two major US airlines are offering refunds to passengers worried about the Zika virus outbreak in many tropical countries. United Airlines says customers booked to fly to areas affected by the virus can reschedule or get refunds. American Airlines...

CDC issues travel warning for pregnant women due to Zika virus

The CDC action was prompted by tests that found Zika, a mosquito-borne illness, in fetal and newborn tissue of Brazilian babies affected with microcephaly. The agency said additional studies are needed.The advisory lists Brazil, Colombia, El...

United, American offer refunds for travel to Zika areas

Two major U.S. airlines are offering refunds to passengers worried about the Zika virus outbreak in many tropical countries. United Airlines says customers booked to fly to areas affected by the virus can reschedule or get refunds. American...

What pregnant women and travellers need to know about Zika

The Zika virus is becoming a growing public health concern in the Americas, prompting officials to advise pregnant women and those who are trying to conceive to take precautions to prevent catching the virus that can damage the brains of foetuses....

CDC warns traveling moms-to-be

The CDC action was prompted by tests that found Zika, a mosquito-borne illness, in fetal and newborn tissue of Brazilian babies affected with microcephaly. The agency said additional studies are needed.The advisory lists Brazil, Colombia, El...

Zika virus: US issues travel warning for pregnant women

January 16th, 2016 09:34 AM This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, U.S. health...

CDC urges Zika virus testing for some pregnant women travelers

Pregnant women who have visited countries in which the Zika virus is spreading should see a doctor soon and get tested for infection even though the tests are imperfect, federal health officials said on Tuesday. That advice was at the core of...

CDC warns pregnant women not to travel to these countries

Columbia, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Thailand and Mexico are only a handful of countries that have been included in a recent report by the CDC as zones with evidence of Zika virus transmission. >> Read more trending stories Philippines, Gabon,...

Zika virus: CDC warns pregnant women not to travel to these countries

Columbia, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Thailand and Mexico are only a handful of countries that have been included in a recent report by the CDC as zones with evidence of Zika virus transmission. >> Read more trending stories Philippines, Gabon,...

US adds more countries to Zika virus travel alert

A health worker fumigates the Altos del Cerro neighbourhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas The U.S. Centers for Disease...

Zika Virus Link to Rare Paralysis Investigated as CDC Issues New Travel Warning for Pregnant Women

Health officials are now investigating if the mosquito-borne Zika virus is linked to a rare paralysis syndrome called Guillain-Barre. The syndrome results when the immune system goes haywire and attacks the nervous system. It has been known to...

Rare Virus Diagnosed In Baby After Travel Alert

A baby born with brain damage in Hawaii has tested positive for the rare mosquito-borne Zika virus, US health officials have confirmed. It is understood that it is the first case of the virus in a birth on US soil. It has been linked to serious...

New travel memoirs from Paul Theroux, Patti Smith

Theroux focuses on the Deep South; Smith chronicles offbeat travels. Travel memoirs come in many variations, whether it be the unvarnished language of a journal that was never intended to be published, or the fine-tuned reflections of an author on...

Costa Rica Changes Yellow Fever Vaccination Requirements

(Vax-Before-Travel)The Costa Rican Ministry of Health published a notice in December 2024 regarding changes to yellow fever certificate requirements for travelers, effective January 11, 2025. The countries that are now considered at risk and for...

‘M Train’: Patti Smith on travels, dreams and pilgrimages

Patti Smith’s new memoir, “M Train,” is the musician/author’s beautifully composed account of her travels and pilgrimages, told through words and photographs. She appears Nov. 22 at Town Hall Seattle. ‘M Train’ Patti Smith Knopf, 272 pp., $25...

Basquiat to Delaney: inside the exhibition honouring 50 years of art in Black Paris

Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. I was in France at the weekend to check out the Paris Noir exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, an odyssey through the generations of Black artists from across the world who found a complicated sanctuary in the...

140-member Guyanese contingent confirmed for Inter-Guiana Games

The National Sports Commission (NSC), following an extensive and consultative process, has finalised a 140-member contingent that will participate in the 2025 edition of the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG), which is slated for Cayenne, French Guiana,...

Riverside campground delivers peaceful escape

Civil unrest and deadly riots have led a French couple to the banks of the Clutha River. Wanaka plays host to many travellers from across the world and each couple, family or individual carries with them a unique story of how and why they found...

9 tips to travel on the cheap from someone who's visited 125 countries on $15 a day

Wish that you could afford to travel more? According to Patrick Martin Schroeder, you can. For the past eight years, he's traveled around the world and spent approximately $45,000 in the process, which averages out to just $15 per day. To date,...

Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate Is Mandatory To Enter And Exit Paraguay

As the peak holiday season arrives, the Paraguayan Ministry of Public Health has emphasised the importance of being protected through vaccination before traveling abroad, especially to risk areas, and reminds that possessing a certificate...