Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Health
One who hides his illness has no medicine; one who hides his problem has no
remedy.
Ethiopian proverb
As long as you stay up to date with your vaccinations and take some basic preventive
measures, you'd have to be pretty unlucky to succumb to most of the health hazards
covered in this chapter. Africa certainly has an impressive selection of tropical diseases on
offer, but you're much more likely to get a bout of diarrhoea (in fact, you should bank on
it), a cold or an infected mosquito bite than an exotic disease such as sleeping sickness.
