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Nowadays tourism is the largest industry in the world. Tourists visit a place for different purpose; some visit just for a vacation and some visit for education and eagerness to know the unknown and see the unknown. Tourists visiting a different country need to be covered by insurance for the touring time for different health needs. Specially for the tourists and visitors from a western country who are visiting a developing country need Visitors Health Insurance for the duration of stay in the foreign country. Those from developing countries also need Visitors Health Insurance due to the high cost of…

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Mesothelioma is a rare neoplasm (cancerous neoplasm) that arises from mesothelial cells lining the parietal and visceral pleura of the lungs. Mesothelium is the protective lining that covers most of the internal organs (including lungs) of the body. The commonest site of mesothelioma is the pleura, which is the outermost lining of the lungs and the chest wall. But mesothelioma can occur at any site where mesothelial cells lining is present like peritoneum, heart etc. The most important cause (and most likely the only cause) of mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos. Most of the patients of mesothelioma have worked on…

Pure uncontaminated water dose not occur in nature. The natural water contain impurities both natural and man made. The natural impurities are not dangerous like man made impurities. The natural impurities are dissolved gas (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide which are picked up during rain), and dissolved minerals (salts of calcium, magnesium and sodium). The minerals are due to contact of water with soil. Natural water also contain suspended impurities (clay, sand, mud, silt etc.) and microscopic organisms (bacteria, virus, planktons, fungi etc). All the natural impurities are derived from the soil, catchments area and atmosphere. Water pollution by man…

Human Health can be affected by drinking contaminated water through food or directly as drinking water and also by use of contaminated water for personal hygiene or recreation (swimming pools for swimming and diving and other water sports). The term water related disease include water borne disease also. Developing countries carry a heavy burden of water borne diseases due to lack of safe drinking water supply. Among the water borne and water related diseases diarrhea is most important. Water related disease can be biological (water borne disease) and chemical. Biological: They are two types those caused by the presence of infective…

There are 14 documented disorders which can be due to excess exposure to heat. Some of the common and important disorders are discussed below: Effects of Heat: Heat stroke Heat stroke Also known as sunstroke. This is due to failure of heat regulating mechanism of human body. The main feature of heat stroke is very high body temperature of about 110 degree Fahrenheit(430 Centigrade). High temperature is accompanied by convulsion, delirium and partial or complete loss of consciousness. Skin is usually dry and hot. Sweating is absent or very scanty. Death rate is high (about 40%) even it quick medical attention is…

Theoretically typhoid is an eradicable (as smallpox) disease as Salmonella that cause enteric fever survive only in human hosts and are spread by contaminated food and water. But high prevalence of typhoid in developing countries and lack of adequate sewage disposal and water treatment make the goal of eradication of typhoid impracticable at present. So travelers from developed countries to developing country should monitor their food and water intake carefully and also get vaccinated for typhoid. Typhoid vaccines: At present 2 types of typhoid vaccines are commercially available: (1) Ty21a, an oral live attenuated vaccine of Salmonella Typhi (given on days 1, 3,…

The clinical features of typhoid fever are nonspecific. So diagnosis of typhoid fever should be considered if a traveler returning from developing country with fever, especially from Indian subcontinent, and Latin America or in developing countries any patient with fever. Other diagnosis to be considered in case of fever and international travel are malaria, hepatitis, bacterial enteritis, dengue fever, rickettsial infections, leptospirosis, amebic liver abscesses, and acute HIV infection etc. A positive blood culture is the only confirmatory test for diagnosis of typhoid fever and other laboratory tests are not diagnostic. There may be non specific laboratory changes like leukopenia…

Contact lenses are used for corrective (to correct refractive errors of eyes, improve vision etc.), therapeutic and cosmetic purpose. Previously there were only hard contact lenses available, but thanks to Czech chemists Otto Wichterle and Drahoslav Lim who invented present modern soft contact lenses. They also invented the gel that is used for the production of these soft contact lenses. Contact lens was first successfully fitted by Adolf Eugen Fick, a German physiologist, while working in Zurich in the year 1887. only hard contact lenses were available at first and they had many disadvantages like chances of injury to the…

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