Students planning on taking a gap year have been warned not to forget about budgeting for vaccinations when financing their trip.
Travel expert Jane Owen wrote in the Times that many gap year students, or gappers, are wrong in not wanting to 'waste' the money they've raised on getting injections, when there are other things to buy.
However Ms Owen states: 'Virtually all gappers will visit areas where malaria and dengue fever is endemic and diseases like Yellow fever, cholera and hepatitis lurk. Almost all are potential killers.'
She goes on to say that the health of gappers must be the most important thing throughout their travels and they must have knowledge of the local healthcare system.
According to the Guardian, figures from 2005 show that almost 200,000 18 to 25-year-olds take time out to work and study abroad each year.
Travel expert Jane Owen wrote in the Times that many gap year students, or gappers, are wrong in not wanting to 'waste' the money they've raised on getting injections, when there are other things to buy.
However Ms Owen states: 'Virtually all gappers will visit areas where malaria and dengue fever is endemic and diseases like Yellow fever, cholera and hepatitis lurk. Almost all are potential killers.'
She goes on to say that the health of gappers must be the most important thing throughout their travels and they must have knowledge of the local healthcare system.
According to the Guardian, figures from 2005 show that almost 200,000 18 to 25-year-olds take time out to work and study abroad each year.
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