Exotic Travel Can Lead to Exotic Diseases (Not Just the 'Revenge Anymore)

AP/MSNBC ^ | 02/01/2005 | AP

[drt1]

Unusual illnesses not uncommon for adventure tourists. Kevin Keogh spent the morning doing ordinary chores. By afternoon, he was climbing out the window of his Mercedes and onto the roof as it sped down a busy street. Standing on top of the car, his arms outstretched as if he were surfing, he jumped to his death.

What would make the chief financial officer for the city of Phoenix do something so bizarre? .....

[drt1]

Anyone checked Kerry's recent travels? Perhaps this explains some of his seemingly unexplainable behavior?

[NonValueAdded]

Perhaps something he picked up in Cambodia? "... then one foggy Christmas Eve, Kerry ate that fish ..."

[AppyPappy]

Exotic travel for me is Louisiana or Key West.

[drt1]

LOL - I think you've got it! Now Kerry can prove he was in Cambodia - All he has to do is subject himself to a brain biopsy to find that little parasite that keeps causing those mental blackouts.

[elli1]

Interesting article but now I'm skeert to leave my house. :-)

[ThanhPhero]

I traveled in Viet Nam for a month in 03, eating local food prepared in homes or in housefront cafes. I drank bottled water(as do the locals) and eschewed uncooked vegetables. I came back healthier than I have been in years. I suffered a day's diahrea from an overripe berry my first week but I've done that at home, too. I need to be more discriminating in my consumption of fresh fruit here or anywhere else.

[Republican Babe]

What would make the chief financial officer for the city of Phoenix do something so bizarre? .....

COOKED BOOKS ?

[Rightly Biased]

The STD you catch in Vegas wont stay in Vegas

[Woodworker]

"Tauxe teases his sister, Lisa Tauxe, a geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who got hepatitis from a trip to Africa. She doesn’t know what did it: the miniature zoo in the water she swallowed while windsurfing* in a polluted bay or the raw sea urchin she had afterward.

“It walked across my plate as I was trying to eat it. It’s sushi. It’s stupid. I don’t do that anymore,” she said."

This is a great article! Likely people living in the lap of civilization have less resistance to the exotic (i.e., the survivors are not as tough) than our ancestors who ran the gauntlet of parasites and diseases two hundred years ago.

* Windsurfing, a favorite pastime of Liberal Massachusetts Senatorial non-hunting dawgs...

[Jason_b]

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