New travel blood clots fears DEADLY blood clots are just as likely to form from long-distance train and bus trips as they are from air travel, experts have warned. Why flying is a real headache HEADACHES associated with air travel appear to be a "huge and painful problem" for many passenger, according to a new report. Tourist has maggots surgically removed A BRITISH tourist, who was forced to have maggots surgically removed, has described the terrifying ordeal as like having "baby crabs growing inside me". Rabies a risk for Olympic tourists IF you're heading to the Beijing Olympics, you should worry less about catching an exotic disease and more about bronchitis and dog bites. Diarrhoea patch protects travellers A NEEDLE-free vaccine protected more than 70 per cent of visitors to Mexico and Guatemala from travellers' diarrhoea, researchers say. Plane cabins no hotbeds of disease GETTING on a packed plane – some people likely to have an infectious disease – increases the risk of catching a bug, right? Wrong. Things that go bump in the flight WHERE do the rattles, whines and all the other things that go bump on your flight come from? Alistair Smith explains. Sure enough, insure NOTHING can ruin an overseas holiday like illness or injury. And, as the saying goes, if you can't afford travel insurance, you can't afford to travel. Eat and runny on the road TRAVELLER'S diarrhoea is as inevitable as a delayed flight but you can minimise your chance of succumbing, writes seasoned traveller Ewen Bell. Things you don't want to take home MICROSCOPIC parasites, water born fleas and translucent catfish are just a few of the least desirable keepsakes you can pick-up on your holidays.