Kensington Clinic

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We provide the full range of travel vaccinations and health services to keep you safe and well on your travels. Here are the top ten most popular.

1. Cholera – Common in Africa, Central America and Asia, cholera is an unpleasant bacterial infection found in contaminated food and water
2. Hepatitis A – All you need to do is come into contact with contaminated faecal matter, often via food and water, and you’re at risk of hepatitis A, commonest in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America
3. Hepatitis B – Most often found in undeveloped nations but also in developed countries, this disease is passed on through sexual intercourse, shared drug needles, unclean tattoo parlours, unhygienic hairdressers and dirty nail salons
4. Japanese Encephalitis – Common in South East Asia, Japan, and tropical regions of Australia with occasional epidemics in China and India, there’s no cure for this disease and it’s well worth taking sensible steps to avoid it
5. Tick-borne Encephalitis – Ticks carry this nasty disease, one of the rare serious diseases you can catch in temperate areas like eastern, northern and central Europe. It’s also common in eastern Russia, east Asia, China and Japan
6. Malaria – Spread by mosquitoes and commonest in the equatorial tropics and subtropics, malaria can be a killer
7. Meningitis – A bacterial infection most often found in sub-Saharan Africa, meningitis can and does kill
8. Rabies – Infected animal and human bites and scratches are how rabies is passed on. Often deadly, it’s particularly common in Thailand, Brazil and India
9. Typhoid – A bacterial infection, typhoid is found everywhere on the planet where sanitation and hygiene are poor
10. Yellow Fever – Another infection spread by mosquitoes, yellow fever is most often found in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Brazil Peru and Columbia