Travel health update.

MALARIA prevention; POLIO prevention; POLIOMYELITIS vaccines; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHOLERA vaccines; JAPANESE B encephalitis vaccines; TRAVEL hygiene; WORLD Wide Web; INFORMATION resources; GOVERNMENT regulation; DISEASE eradication; CHILDREN; VACCINES

This section offers travel health news briefs. As part of efforts on the global eradication of polio, 155 countries and territories are shifting from trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine to protect against type 1 and 3 wild polio strains. Guidance in Great Britain prescribe Malaria chemophrophylaxis for children traveling to endemic areas. Vaccine company Valneva launches in Great Britain to supply Japanese encephalitis vaccine Ixiaro and cholera vaccine Dukoral.