Archive for the ‘Adelaide’ Category

All about Japanese Encephalitis

Dr Chris Rook Adelaide Member TMA
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a viral disease that can damage the brain and is transmitted by mosquitoes. It is the most common vaccine-preventable cause of epidemic encephalitis world-wide with most cases occurring in Asia. It was first identified in 1935 and it is estimated there are more than 30- 50,000 cases and 10,000 deaths annually. It has recently been reported in Australia  Read on for more information

• Posted on February 13, 2023
• Posted in Adelaide, Vaccine

Uganda – volunteer in health clinic

Kate McGowan RN

TravelBugs Adelaide

It’s a week into my four week Uganda trip and I find myself in a not-unfamiliar environment. It feels like I’ve been here before: Poverty and lack of resources in the tropics tends to send cities into a familiar decline.  It’s warm, humid and hazy, the air is heavy with wood smoke, diesel and leaded petrol fumes from the old cars that inhabit the roads.

• Posted on October 7, 2019
• Posted in Adelaide, Clinic Stories
• Tags: Uganda

My Adventure In Nepal….?

Be prepared for anything!

I recently went on a trip to Nepal, it was not an adventure trip, just four fit and healthy women with a car and a driver. The aim of the trip was to have a good time and learn something new at a Travel Medicine Conference, which was being held in Kathmandu, as well as see the country that we often talk about.

• Posted on May 25, 2017
• Posted in Adelaide
• Tags: Nepal

Polio on the Rise

If you’re going backpacking Asia then maybe you should read this!

Polio is back, and Typhoid is close behind!

• Posted on December 17, 2015
• Posted in Adelaide
• Tags: polio

Cruise Ship Nursing

Stacey Bonser, Registered Nurse, Adelaide

Cruise Ship Nursing

After working in emergency and critical care for several years, I spent the next 3 years working on cruise ships as a Registered Nurse for Princess Cruises between 2010 and 2013.With this experience I was able to travel the world and visit over 160 ports and cities in 50 countries.

Areas of the world that I sailed included Asia, Oceania, The Middle East, Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Caribbean, North and Central America.

• Posted on August 19, 2014
• Posted in Adelaide
• Tags: cruise