A Beijing-based tour group announced that North Korea was to lift a four-month ban on foreign tourism imposed over the concern of the rapid spread of deadly Ebola virus.
Ebola Virus Disease | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: Cause Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment
Ebola is caused by a virus via direct contact with body fluids or infected blood. Scientists have identified five types of Ebola or Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus.
Ebola is caused by a virus via direct contact with body fluids or infected blood. Scientists have identified five types of Ebola or Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus.
North Korea, which has not registered a single suspected case of Ebola, closed its borders to foreign tourists back in October.
It also strictly enforced a 21-day quarantine period on anyone entering the country, including foreign diplomats.
Medical Tourism � The Road Ahead
Medical Tourism has become a serious enterprise in India over the last two years. However some hospitals have been practicing it for quite a few years.
Medical Tourism has become a serious enterprise in India over the last two years. However some hospitals have been practicing it for quite a few years.
Tourism is a crucial source of hard currency for the cash-strapped North, but it seemed willing to take a financial hit to avert any chance of an Ebola outbreak that its weak health infrastructure would be totally incapable of dealing with.
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About Medical Tourism
Medical tourism can be broadly defined as provision of 'cost effective' private medical care in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialized treatment.
Medical tourism can be broadly defined as provision of 'cost effective' private medical care in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialized treatment.
In 2003, it suspended foreign tours for three months due to fears over the spread of SARS.
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Student Health Insurance Options
When students study abroad, they are away from their family and on their own, they need the assurance of health insurance if something untoward were to happen to them.
When students study abroad, they are away from their family and on their own, they need the assurance of health insurance if something untoward were to happen to them.
More than 9,500 people have died of the disease since the west African epidemic emerged in southern Guinea in December 2013.
Source-AFP
