{"id":21275,"date":"2024-06-12T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=21275"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:18:03","slug":"consumer-health-minute-healthy-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-healthy-traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Healthy Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is here and vacations are in the planning. Whether traveling solo, with family, friends or even with work colleagues, it is good to include how to stay healthy in your planning. Here are some resources to offer:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21276\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21276\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/cat_in_suitcase-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cat in suitcase\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/cat_in_suitcase-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/cat_in_suitcase-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/cat_in_suitcase-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/cat_in_suitcase-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/cat_in_suitcase.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t forget to take me along!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MedlinePlus <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/travelershealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traveler\u2019s Health<\/a>: This health topic page on MedlinePlus is a good starting point. What\u2019s nice about MedlinePlus is that it includes demographic information for children, women, and older adults. It also includes links to specifics like swelling feet, motion sickness as well as to related topics about cruise ships and immunocompromised travelers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC Traveler\u2019s Health<\/a>: The CDC is a great resource with lots of information for travelers such as vaccine requirements, global travel, and travel notices. There\u2019s even a tool where you can select the country you\u2019re going to for country specific information.<\/p>\n<p>Your state department of health may also have additional information to offer your patrons and community. Being prepared can help make traveling not just safer but more enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you&#8217;re taking Whiskers with you, check out these links to keep her healthy too while traveling.<\/p>\n<p>From the CDC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/importation\/traveling-with-pets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taking your dog or cat abroad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthypets\/keeping-pets-and-people-healthy\/people-and-pet-safe-during-travel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ways to keep people and pets safe during travel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/yellowbook\/2024\/family\/pets-and-service-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traveling with Pets &amp; Service Animals<\/a>, CDC Yellow Book 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American Red Cross, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/get-help\/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies\/pet-travel-safety.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pet Travel Safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Humane Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/resources\/travel-safely-your-pet-car-airplane-ship-or-train\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel Safely with Your Pet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is here and vacations are in the planning. Whether traveling solo, with family, friends or even with work colleagues, it is good to include how to stay healthy in your planning. Here are some resources to offer: MedlinePlus Traveler\u2019s Health: This health topic page on MedlinePlus is a good starting point. What\u2019s nice about&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-healthy-traveling\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457],"tags":[119,254,414,364],"class_list":["post-21275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-information","tag-pet-health","tag-travel-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21325,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21275\/revisions\/21325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}