Title – Welcome Visitor
Date – July 2003
Location - British Virgin Islands
Geckos are regular visitors to many hotel rooms around the world, they don’t discriminate between five star and dorm rooms, they just go wherever the light takes them. To some these are particularly unwelcome visitors, but sometimes it’s worth considering the facts:
Geckos kill no people anywhere in the world at any time, the nearest they get is their great great great big cousins the Komodo Dragons of central Indonesia, who very occasionally are responsible for the death of a local villager, normally a child. The Mosquito also doesn’t kill any people anywhere in the world, but unfortunately for the mosquito they carry the malaria parasite. They transfer this parasite to humans killing over 1,000,000 every year (mostly children) with somewhere in the region of 300,000,000 people suffering from malaria related illness described as ‘acute’ every year.
Geckos eat mosquitoes; keeping mosquitoes out of a room is almost impossible; I welcome the gecko.
Beyond The Blue covers the aspects of Travel Health during our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop, we are not medical practitioners and certainly not doctors, but we can direct you on basic travel health, measures you can use to reduce the risks and information on what to do if you fall ill. We also advise anyone undertaking travel to an unfamiliar new country, to seek professional medical advice and can help them locate a fully qualified practitioner.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – July 2003
Location - British Virgin Islands
Geckos are regular visitors to many hotel rooms around the world, they don’t discriminate between five star and dorm rooms, they just go wherever the light takes them. To some these are particularly unwelcome visitors, but sometimes it’s worth considering the facts:
Geckos kill no people anywhere in the world at any time, the nearest they get is their great great great big cousins the Komodo Dragons of central Indonesia, who very occasionally are responsible for the death of a local villager, normally a child. The Mosquito also doesn’t kill any people anywhere in the world, but unfortunately for the mosquito they carry the malaria parasite. They transfer this parasite to humans killing over 1,000,000 every year (mostly children) with somewhere in the region of 300,000,000 people suffering from malaria related illness described as ‘acute’ every year.
Geckos eat mosquitoes; keeping mosquitoes out of a room is almost impossible; I welcome the gecko.
Beyond The Blue covers the aspects of Travel Health during our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop, we are not medical practitioners and certainly not doctors, but we can direct you on basic travel health, measures you can use to reduce the risks and information on what to do if you fall ill. We also advise anyone undertaking travel to an unfamiliar new country, to seek professional medical advice and can help them locate a fully qualified practitioner.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
