e-Travel Blackboard is currently hosting a consultant health survey.

e-Travel Blackboard is currently running a travel health survey, designed to determine what health information travel consultants share with their clients before they embark on their holidays.

The survey will cover the sources travel consultants use to obtain health travel information and the overall level of understanding these consultants have in regards to travel-related health risks.

More than three-in-five Australians are not seeking professional health advice before travelling overseas, with many visiting destinations carrying a risk of infectious diseases, including hepatitis A and B, typhoid fever and rabies, the Family Medicine Research Centre reported.

“Australians are travelling in record numbers, making almost eight million short-term overseas trips within a year, with Indonesia the country’s second most popular travel destination,” Travellers Medical & Vaccination Centre medical director Dr Conrad Moreira said.

”However, a ticket to Indonesia carries the risk of a mild infection with travellers’ diarrhoea or ‘Bali Belly’, through to serious infectious diseases, such as rabies, hepatitis A and malaria.

“Complacent travellers may not only be risking infection with gastrointestinal, insect and blood-borne diseases while overseas, but potentially spreading these diseases across international borders, through their travel patterns and behaviours,” Dr Moreira said.

Dr Moreira emphasised that “when it comes to overseas travel, prevention is infinitely better than cure.”

To participate in this one-of-a-kind questionnaire click here or visit the e-Travel Blackboard homepage.