Travel Health
The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food.” (Ford Prefect)Road Junky has 32 Travel Health articles. Scroll down to view.
How Not to Get Beaten Up, Raped, Robbed, Kidnapped or Extorted Abroad
The perils that face the traveler are many: natural disasters, disease, wild animals and falling guidebooks are all amongst the most common causes of death abroad but as we all ...
Malaria Travel Guide
Around 30,000 travelers from the West catch malaria each year.
Every 30 seconds a kid in Africa dies from malaria.
In the 1960’s scientists were confident that malaria would soon be a ...
Travel Stomach Problems
A happy stomach basically comes down to eating well. If not then you can have every kind of indigestion, stomach cramps and gas imaginable.
Most stomach problems are caused by ...
Diarrhea Guide for the Traveler
Just about every traveller who heads to the Third World ends up experiencing diarrhea. At first the whole subject is kind of embarrassing until you discover that in many countries ...
To Drink the Local Water?
Drinking the local water was something that I once felt set me apart from the other travelers who all needed their special water in a plastic bottle tapped god knows ...
Drink Any Water Anywhere - and Save Lives
Of all the things we take for granted in the modern world, water on tap is probably one of the most basic. Imagine being thirsty, however not only having to ...
Online Travel Health Resources for the Hypochondriac
One of the worst things about traveling is getting sick and not knowing what’s wrong with you. Your guidebook only lists the obvious, major diseases, you don’t want to pay ...
10 Countries Where You Don't Want to Go to Jail
The world can be a scary, dangerous place where the life of the traveler is threatened on all sides. There are killer diseases, muggers, natural disasters and terrible karaoke music ...
Travel Product Review - Schick Quattro Titanium Trimmer
Vogelsang Mountain High Life
Somewhere high in the mountains under a curtain of doom, I embarked on a journey of mythological proportions. This journey would prove to be a test of ...
The Left Hand Toilet Technique and Spitting – World Hygiene
From Morocco to Bangladesh, use your left hand to eat with, pick stuff up in the grocery store or even worse, to shake someone else’s hand and you’ll be considered ...
Swine Flu and the End of Travel
A couple of years ago Road Junky posted a tongue in cheek editorial about bird flu and we could almost have posted it again crossing out the word bird ...
Gamma Rays Attack Travelers in Flight
Scientists have found that gamma rays are given off by thunderstorms and that there are these tiny particles rushing around at ‘ultrarelativistc speeds’ – try getting that one out at ...
Health Map - Diseases and Destinations
In an age where travelers research their destinations by internet rather than just going there, a new tool has come along to help us worry about what terrible diseases we’ll ...
Travel Product Review - How Sar Quick Lock
Some guy recently sent us the How Sar Quick Lock and a note reading: how’s our Quick Lock?. We decided to put it to the Road Junky review. This ...
Ten Reasons Not to Travel in Australia, the World's Most Dangerous Country
It’s been said very reasonably that ‘just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean everyone isn’t out to get you’ – well, for anyone with even a slight persecution complex, travel in ...
Travel to Mental Institutions Risking Mesothelioma
Drifting through a maze of dark foreboding hallways covered in giant plastic tarps, I struggled to breathe through my respirator as if I were some poor-man’s version of Darth Vader ...
Travel Product Review: Don't Bug Me! Patch
It was just what we needed for our trip to tropical Belize and Guatemala to ward off the throng of malaria/dengue infested mosquitoes we were bound to encounter. Somewhere buried ...
Travel Product Review: The FlareSafe Device
Imagine my surprise to wake up one morning to find a DHL package addressed “Attention: Road Junky” sitting at my doorstep next to the daily newspaper.
Uh oh. They’ve ...
A-Z Travel Health Guide
Antibiotics – These drugs have saved millions of lives but should only be used when there’s no other alternative. Allied with the pharmaceutical mafia of the world, doctors push them ...
