Travel Vaccine News

Cruise line passengers will have to wait a few more months to enjoy a Christmas holiday voyage on an innovative ship next year.
Carnival Cruise Line recently notified guests booked on the initial Carnival Jubilee of the postponement because of shipyard delays.
The ship's initial embarkation from Galveston, Texas, is now scheduled for December 23, 2023. 
Guests and travel advisors have been notified of this change.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced its intent to extend the REAL ID full enforcement date by 24 months until May 7, 2025.
Under the new regulations published to execute this change on December 5, 2022, U.S. states will now have additional time to ensure their residents have driver's licenses and identification cards that meet the security standards established by the REAL ID Act.

If you are considering a babymoon before your due date, women probably have more than a few questions about traveling while pregnant.
Before booking any air trips, there are a few factors to consider, says Ob/Gyn Kristen Ekman, MD, with the Cleveland Clinic.
On November 29, 2022, the Clinic published an article, "For the most part, the closer you are to the due date, the closer you should stay to home," Dr. Ekman advises.

While all the World Health Organization (WHO) regions remain committed to measles elimination, no region has achieved and sustained elimination targets of 95%.
And there have been significant decreases in measles-containing vaccine (MCV) coverage during the recent pandemic.
Among the WHO regions, the Southeast Asia Region faced the most significant decrease in first-dose MCV coverage (from 94% to 86%) between 2019 and 2021.
None of the WHO regions have recovered since 2019.

The U.K. Health Services Agency (UKHSA) recently published an update highlighting actions in response to detecting a VDPV2 in London sewage samples. 
The UKHSA stated on November 14, 2022, primary care colleagues and immunization providers should ensure their patients are up to date with their polio-containing vaccines.
And offer catch-up vaccination to anyone who is un/under-vaccinated. 
In the greater London area, an Inactivated Polio Vaccine booster campaign was launched targeting children aged one.

Since the recent cholera outbreak was declared in Syria in September 2022, tens of thousands of suspected acute watery diarrhea (AWD) cases have been reported in all governorates.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced some positive news on November 29, 2022, trucks carrying about two million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) have arrived in Damascus, Syria.
These OCVs will be used in an immunization campaign starting on December 4, 2022, to reach vulnerable people in the highly affected governorates: Aleppo, Ar-Raqqa Al -Hassakeh, and Deir ez-Zor.

Since the recent pandemic limited a person's mobility and social life, people's recreational behavior made them seek more contact with nature closer to home.
As a result, locating recreational spaces in the vicinity of cities gained importance.
A new Scientific Reports study proposed a methodology for assessing the tourist and recreational potential of areas (METPRET) in the vicinity of cities with the potential to meet the needs for tourism and recreation.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported about forty million children are currently susceptible to the growing measles risk.
On November 23, 2022, the WHO announced a record twenty-five million children missed their first measle vaccine dose, and an additional 14.7 million children missed their second dose.
This decline is a significant setback in global progress toward achieving and maintaining measles elimination and leaves millions of children susceptible to infection, stated the WHO.

One of the worlds leading mosquito-borne viruses has increased globally over the past two decades and is endemic in more than 125 countries.
The good news is dengue has had a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccine available for a few years.
However, deploying the Dengvaxia vaccine comes with very specific requirements to prevent dengue infections.
Dengue is caused by any of four dengue virus serotypes, each of which can cause dengue fever or severe dengue. 

The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed today the epidemiological situation of the monkeypox virus outbreak.
Cases of monkeypox (MPX) infection have been confirmed in England since May 6, 2022. 
As of November 21, 2022, there were 3,570 confirmed and 150 highly probable monkeypox cases detected in the U.K.
Of these, 96 were in Scotland, 34 were in Northern Ireland, 47 were in Wales, and 3,543 (69%) were in England.
There are no reported deaths in the U.K.