Original broadcast date: January 25, 2009

So you are set to travel south for a winter escape vacation. Since many also book these vacations on a last minute basis, they tend to forget that there are some health issues that need to be considered. One such issue is malaria.

• Dr. Jay Keystone, MD, MSc (CTM),. FRCP(C), Staff Physician, Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital, professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Director of Medisys Travel Health Clinic in Toronto