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British holidaymakers are 'gambling with their health' by not being vaccinated or taking anti-malaria pills when they go abroad, a study has found.
One in six Britons who have been to tropical countries where malaria is prevalent did not taken any anti-malaria pills with them, according to a study of 2,200 people by Direct Line Travel Insurance.
The report said there appeared to be "widespread ignorance" of the need to take medical precautions when visiting tropical countries.
Almost one in five of those who did not have vaccinations and did not vaccinate their children said they were unaware the injections were needed.
Many of those questioned admitted they did not take any medicines with them when travelling and one in five said they simply did not believe they would catch a disease. Chris Price at Direct Line Travel Insurance, said: "The last decade has seen a steady increase in travel to Asia, Africa and South America, destinations where serious diseases including malaria are common.
"Despite this, or maybe because of it, people are effectively gambling with their health."
UK chlamydia infections rise by 5pc
Cases of chlamydia - the sexual infection that can destroy a woman's fertility - went up by five per cent last year, according to latest figures.
The increase was higher than a rise of three per cent in the overall level of sexually transmitted infections.
But there was a massive leap of 23 per cent in syphilis cases - including the birth of babies infected with their mother's disease - even though gonorrhoea infections have been cut.
Experts at the Health Protection Agency said there was a slowing down of growth in STIs following the launch of a national campaign to test young people for chlamydia and more treatments by NHS clinics. Chlamydia cases rose from 104,840 in 2004 to 109,832 in 2005, with similar numbers of infections recorded for men and women. In the past ten years, cases of chlamydia rose by 223 per cent.
A national screening programme for chlamydia is mainly testing young women but the Men's Health Forum charity said failing to test young men was contributing to a cycle of re-infection of women.
The total number of STIs went up from 768,339 cases in 2004 to 790,387 last year - with a total rise of 20 per cent between 2000 and 2004.
Syphilis cases rose from 2,278 in 2004 to 2,807 in 2005. Cases of gonorrhoea went down from 22,350 in 2004 to 19,495 in 2005.
Professor Peter Borriello, director of the HPA's Centre for Infections, said 'real progress' was being made but warned there was no room for complacency.
Norman Wells, of the campaign group Family and Youth Concern, said that government policies on sexual health are letting young people down.
He said: 'The truth is that no method of contraception provides guaranteed protection against STIs, some of which can have lifelong consequences, and most provide none at all. The only sure way to guarantee optimum sexual health is to confine sexual intimacy to a lifelong and faithful marriage.'
Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below?
Why are condoms not provided free? It would save the NHS millions.
- M. Jones, England
I think confining sex to marriage alone is going a bit far - ideal yes, but you may have to kiss three or four frogs, you know! And I feel sorry for those who have not slept around, but have the misfortune to catch an STI off their first or second partner.
The promiscuous however, the Ibiza crowd etc, get pretty much what they deserve. And I resent paying for their fertility treatment, or going back to sexual health clinics again and again because they can't keep their legs closed and just think ' Not to worry I get free treatment'. Promiscuity ought be stigmatised again, not seen as something to be proud of.
- Cg, E Anglia
Wanton behaviour has been the downfall of greater empires than this one.
