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DrÌýMark PorterÌýgives listeners the low-down on what the medical profession does and doesn't know. Each week an expert in the studio tacklesÌýa particular topic and there are reports from around the UK on the health of the nation - and the NHS.
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"I spend half my week practising medicine and the other half writing and talking about it as a GP in Gloucestershire. Working on Case Notes has been a boon for both me and my patients. One of the principal aims of the programme is to keep our listeners up-to-date with the latest developments in healthcare, and to accomplish that I get to interview a wide range of specialists at the cutting edge of medicine. A rare privilege that ensures our listeners aren't the only ones to learn something new."
Mark Porter
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 Full programme transcript >>
Tropical Health
This week's programme is all about travel medicineÌý and Mark Porter's guest this week is Dr Ron Behrens from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.Ìý
They will beÌýtalking aboutÌýhow to protect you and your family from everything from traveller’s diarrhoea to malaria and rabies.
Hazards that at best, can disrupt a once inÌýa lifetime holiday or scupper a business trip, and which at worst can be fatal.
Malaria
Case NotesÌý hears from aÌýmother whose 20 year old son died from malaria after he missed some of his anti-malarial drugs during his gap year in Ghana. And he is not the only British student to have died that way.
Upset stomach
Claudia Hammond is off to Delhi and keen to avoid an upset stomach – something she is prone to - and the scourge of many a traveller to far flung places.
Could packing a course of antibiotics be the answer to Delhi belly?
Rabies
And finally, Mark Porter will beÌýfinding out whyÌýsome British travellers are putting themselves at unnecessary risk from rabies – a universally fatal infection for which there is an effective vaccine.
So why don’t more people have it?Ìý
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The WHO estimates that more than 12 million people are attacked each year by dogs, snakes or scorpions.
Around 8 million ought to have precautionary treatment for rabies following a dog bite but only 6% get it.
Rabies remains the 10th most common cause of death from infections in humans.
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