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Kathleen DohenyHealthy Traveler• E-mail
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IF you're headed to cold country to ski, snowboard, snowshoe, sled or ice skate, preparation is the key to staying healthy. Here are tips from six experts:
THE number of outbreaks of illness on cruise ships nearly doubled in 2006, including a spike in the last six weeks. So far this year, 36 disease outbreaks on cruise ships have been reported to the Vessel Sanitation Program of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2005, there were 19.
YOUR flight was delayed, the shuttle took forever and the first rental car they offered you smelled like an ashtray. This is supposed to be a vacation, but by the time you arrive at the hotel check-in desk, getting back to work is starting to look good.
WHEN John Banzhaf III, an executive for an anti-smoking group, was in Paris for the ninth World Congress on Tobacco or Health in 1994, he couldn't help but notice the irony. After sitting in meetings lobbying for nonsmokers' rights, he would walk outside into clouds of smoke.
OVER the Thanksgiving holiday, 2 million passengers a day are expected on U.S. airlines, according to the Air Transport Assn., a trade group.
ALL cruise vacations aren't sedentary, eat-cake-at-midnight affairs. These days, most major lines offer fitness-themed sailings that suggest ways to stay active while providing you with information to improve your body and soul.
IF your dog is a terrible traveler on car trips, aromatherapy may help calm Fido — and you.
TWO recent studies confirm travelers' worst suspicions: Airplanes and hotel rooms are fertile grounds for spreading cold and flu bugs.
IN the last four years, Michael Osborn, a 50-year-old Laguna Beach marketing consultant, has flown to 14 countries for business and pleasure. He is always accompanied by Hastings, his 75-pound yellow Labrador. Hastings has been the perfect traveler, Osborn says, spending much of every flight dozing under his master's seat.
JUST in time for fall travel, here are updates on five insect-borne illnesses.