The 2025 RAEM (Remote Area & Expedition Medicine) Conference was broadcast live last weekend, and if you missed it—you missed something big. For those of us who spend time beyond the edge of mobile reception, where the closest clinic might be a week away, this was more than a professional event. It was a practical, […]
WHO PRESS RELEASE 14.08.2024 WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). Dr Tedros’s declaration came on the […]
Survival or life enhancement? Let me just elaborate on that for a moment. When we’re travelling remotely and entirely dependent upon water collected from rivers, pools or questionable plumbed sources, common sense says we should filter out sediment and invisible impurities such as bacteria, viruses and other nasties, before we replenish our bottles or onboard […]
Despite the current omicron problem, travel is becoming increasingly more attractive again. Nevertheless, special attention should be paid to some countries. UPDATES ON GLOBAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS GHANA In Ghana, 102 infections with yellow fever have been reported in four regions (Savannah, Upper West, Bono and Oti) since October. Of these patients, 46 have since […]
Accept it: Things. Go. Wrong. And when they do, they happen in the worst place and at the most inappropriate time.
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