October 22nd, 2011 | 
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Any time that you’re traveling to a foreign country you should take precautions when it comes to your health. You can easily get sick if you are not picky about what you eat and drink. You would also need to get all of your shots before you go there to prevent infections of communicable diseases like TB and Malaria.
Things that you should concern yourself with can be from feeding your baby to the types of food and water that you should avoid. What should you do with your baby feeding? Feeding an infant is best with breastfeeding in order to prevent less contamination or unsanitary milk. Cholera has been found in sea-foods in Latin America. Travelers are not advise to bring perishable sea-foods back to America from another country.
According to the CDC, water is most often contaminated with virus and bacteria in foreign country. In some foreign country they don’t have proper toileting and people would go on the lake, river, beach or ponds. Therefore, you should never try to swim, drink the water out of any of the places in a foreign country. You will be sure to get sick. You can get eye, ear, nose, and respiratory infection and diarrhea. Even treated pool with chlorine will still have some resistant virus and bacteria like Hepatitis A. You should avoid jumping into any of the water park, lakes, rivers or beaches in a foreign country. You can get sick. People sewage is often in the water stream in most country because they use the water as a toileting place.
You can treat the water by boiling it. After you boil the water for about 1 minute, just let it cool down and don’t add ice. Boiling will kill most water borne pathogens. If you have the stove, just boil the water before you drink and you should be good. You can use chlorine to disinfect recreational water. Water filter can also be helpful but they don’t kill viruses. They only filter bacteria and protozoan. Bacteria and protozoan are very common with water in a foreign country. It’s easy to get a stomach ache or just to get some minor problems from unsanitary condition in another country.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/travel
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