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WHO estimates the monthly risk per 100.000 persons travelling in developing contries as:

• One person will die during the travel
• 60 persons will have to be evacuated by flight in order to get comprehensive treatment
• 400 persons are hospitalised at the destination
• 2000 persons will not able to go back to work directly after getting home.
• 6000 persons have been ill
• 8000 persons have been consulting a medical doctor either at the destination or after getting home from the travel
• 25 000 persons will get ill during the travel
• 55 000 will use medication

Good preparation reduces the risk if something goes wrong on your trip healthwise. The cost of medical evacuation of a sick or injured person is extremely high which stresses the importance to be well insured and well prepared.

100 000 traveller's stricken with infectious diseases are distributed with:

• Less than one person gets meningitis, cholera or legionella
• 10 get HIV-infection
• 40 get typhoid fever
• 80 get hepatitis B
• 150 are exposed to rabies
• 200 get gonorrhoea
• 300 get hepatitis A
• 1500 get bronhcial infections
• 2500 get malaria
• 10 000 get diarrhoea E.coli
• 50 000 get traveller's diarrhoea

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