The Ultimate Guide to Travel Vaccines: What You Need Before You Fly

Planning an international holiday? While you’re busy booking flights and accommodation, there’s one crucial aspect of travel preparation you can’t afford to overlook: travel vaccinations. This comprehensive guide will walk you through everything you need to know about travel vaccines to ensure a safe and healthy journey. Why Travel Vaccines Matter Each year, thousands of […]
South America: Navigating Visas, Embracing Adventure, and Staying Healthy

Our journey through South America was an exhilarating mix of stunning landscapes, unexpected challenges, and essential travel lessons. Our four-week itinerary took us through Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and even further afield to the Falkland Islands and South Shetland Islands. However, one of our biggest takeaways was that flexibility is crucial when exploring this diverse continent—and […]
Keeping healthy while on a single’s bus tour!

Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll on 6 wheels: Keeping healthy while on a single’s bus tour! Mikala, one of our friendly front desk team members at the Travel Medicine Centre Perth, had an unforgettable adventure in Europe earlier this year. Here’s her story and some essential travel tips to keep you healthy on a single’s bus […]
Essential Mosquito Protection Tips for Travellers

Essential Mosquito Protection Tips for Travellers Travelling to tropical or subtropical destinations is thrilling, offering cultural experiences, breathtaking landscapes, and diverse wildlife. However, mosquitoes can quickly turn your dream trip into a nightmare. More than just a nuisance, they can transmit diseases like malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus, Japanese encephalitis, Ross River virus, West Nile […]
Exploring the Nile Valley

Egypt, with its long history of successive waves of invasion, occupation and religious upheaval has held a lifelong fascination for me. So when offered the opportunity to spend three weeks exploring the Nile Valley with its myriad tombs and temples, I jumped at the chance. Travelling as accompanying doctor on a custom designed exploration of […]
A Tropical Escape to Bali

In October 2022 we decided to go for a tropical escape. It felt like it has been forever since I had a travel consult and surely it had been an eternity since I had travelled overseas. (Ok that really is a first world problem guilty as charged). So, at short notice and with little […]
A trip to the Tropical Northern Queensland
By Dr Rafia Akhter A few days ago, I took some time off from work to visit Cairns, a city in tropical ‘Far North Queensland’ and considered to be the gateway to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. I went there for a holiday trip with my extended family (group of 10 people!) for a week. I […]
Typhoon Haiyan travel advice
Prepared by TMA member Narre Warren It is now over a month since Typhoon Haiyan (called Yolanda in the Phillipines) struck the Philippines on 8/11/13. The worst hit provinces were Leyte and Eastern Samar, which experienced sustained winds of 270 kph, gusts of up to 312 kph, and a storm surge in coastal areas as […]
Permethrin – a secret weapon against mosquitoes
Permethrin is a special insecticide that enables clothing to kill or repel mosquitoes Wearing treated items will significantly decrease the number of bites you get. Treated bed nets have been shown to be four times more effective than untreated nets. When you wear treated clothes, you still need to use repellent on exposed skin. You […]
Safety of DEET (N,N,-diethyl-m-toluamide)
Insect repellents containing DEET are the most effective and the most commonly used world wide. DEET has been available commercially for over 50 years and has been studied extensively. It is thought that DEET works by interfering with the mosquito antennae function, effectively making humans invisible to the mosquito. Generally, the duration of protection is […]