Selamat tengah hari! Today, travel medicine specialists Drs. Paul Pottinger & Chris Sanford answer your travel health questions, including:

1. Thoughts on safety of traveling in El Salvador?
2. Tips for fun and safe travel in Belize?
3. What to do if I get pepper sprayed--at a protest or otherwise?
4. Is now a bad time for US citizens to travel overseas?
5. Any reaction to a recent NYT article on traveler's diarrhea published in January 2026?
6. How can you tell if an airline is generally safe?
7. Reflections on the passing of Dr. Bill Foege?

Here is a link to Dr. Glaucomflecken's post on eye health in case of getting pepper-sprayed.

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