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Considering the even growing presence of our employees in foreign offices, it is useful to give them some advises on the elementary hygiene precautions to follow, so to avoid many potential health hassles.
A traveller who reaches a foreign country, above all the African o Latin American Continents and some regions of Asia, has to follow a safe eating behaviour of which hereunder we summarise the principal guidelines: 

1 Avoid uncooked food, except for fruit that should always be peeled by the eater himself;
 
2 If you eat cooked food, ensure that it is served piping hot and thoroughly cooked, in fact, if cooked food is held at an environmental temperature, it may constitute one of the greatest source of eating infections;
 
3 Unpasteurized milk should always be boiled, ice-creams can constitute a danger too;
   
4 Tap water is often bacteriologically contaminated. If there is any doubts boil or sterilise it before use with provided chloride tablets. Anyway, it is always safer to use bottled carbonated water;
  
5 Ice should be avoided, unless made from sure pure drinkable water;
  
6 Beverages such as coffee, tea, wine, beer, and alcoholics are usually safe to drink;
 
7 Do not buy food or beverages from street vendors, this does not represent a warranty for food safety;
 
8 Particular attention should be paid on insects such as mosquitoes, sandflies, ticks, lice, fleas which are malaria, yellow-fever, leishmaniosis, viral encephalitis and also plague and exanthematic typhus carriers;
 
9 Take any precaution when using public sanitation and take care of your personal hygiene and cleanliness more then as usual (Carefully wash your hands with soap and water before eating);
  
10 Do not take a bath in stagnant waters and always keep your shoes on when walking on  sandy and wet soil;
  
11 Clean and disinfect carefully your wounds that, in hot climates, tend – if neglected - to turn into painful ulcers;
   
12 Always wear comfortable shoes, that simultaneously allow a proper transpiration and protect your feet, so to avoid bladder and mycotic infections formation (fungi) and scorpions or reptiles bites;
  
13 Avoid occasional sex, otherwise strictly follow private parts hygiene before and after intercourse, always use a condom;
 
14 Distrust partners who show you certificates proving their HIV negativity (Aids).
 
  
Following these advises with great care we can highly reduce the risk to develop an illness.