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The CDC Foundation, which supports the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has put up a new publication urging business travelers to protect their health when they travel internationally and steering them to resources to help.

It s a smart idea backed by some eye-opening statistics:

• Cost of a course of malaria prophylaxis drugs: $162. Cost of being hospitalized with malaria on return: $25,250.
• Cost of taking the two-dose hepatitis A vaccine: $300. Cost of treatment for a case of hep A: $2,500.
• Cost of medical evacuation insurance: $370. Cost of a medical emergency evacuation: up to $250,000.

The site urges business travelers to see a medical professional, but it also steers them to travel-advice pages. and links to a downloadable travel-medicine reference (Kindle. iOS. Android ). It also offers something I hadn t seen before: an advice app that lets you choose the country you re visiting and then answers that crucial traveler s question: Can I eat this?

Here s a graphic the Foundation put together to explain why pursuing medical advice and vaccines, prophylactic drugs and insurance is an important business issue for both employee health and lost workdays:

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