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Travel medicine and public health: Increasing need for national guidelines
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Travel medicine and public health: Increasing need for national guidelines
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:00 AM

VACCINES & TRAVEL MEDICINE
With the novel coronavirus now spreading outside of China, national and international responses to the outbreak are in the spotlight. This article examines the importance of travel medicine in the modern world, and highlights the lack of national travel medicine guidelines here in New Zealand
Gerard Sonder and Claire Wong
Key points, Most travel vaccinations are not mandatory for travel.
Uniformity of recommendations is important for travellers’ faith in travel medicine, which im
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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