— Melissa Evans @ 1:51 am — 
January 15, 2012Hot off the tables of the top World Health Organization officers is a warning to those planning to travel over the holidays. First of all is the important need to get international travel insurance. International travel health insurance will protect you no matter where you are from having to pay exorbitant amounts for medical or travel problems.
Second is the warning from WHO about new flu viruses. This warning comes on the heels of 10 new infections from a flu virus in the United States which appears to be a variant of the swine flu. WHO has also said that they have alerted the medical communities around the world about new outbreaks for polio, human flu, small pox and SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
The last outbreak of SARS happened 9 years ago and started in China before spreading to the west including Canada. That outbreak caused more than 770 deaths. The WHO is determined to avoid something similar happening this year end, and into 2012. A stern warning has also been given to everyone about reporting any incident as part of a country’s obligation to the rest of the world. This refers only to diseases and infections that are new with symptoms that may resemble an outbreak or mutated virus.
Travelers should keep track of what’s happening in the places they plan to visit before even getting on a plane or ship. If they have trip cancellation insurance, they can claim for a refund on their ticket. Furthermore, they have to get their immunizations updated including the one for the influenza. According to WHO, “Influenza viruses are unpredictable, they have the possibility to change and become more transmissible among humans as shown by the emergence of the influenza pandemic H1N1 virus in 2009. For this reason, continued monitoring of the occurrence of human infections with these viruses and characterization of the viruses themselves are critically important to assess their pandemic potential.
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