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Although this sounds like a rare experience, in reality, Richards represents one of many travelers who have suffered similar health problems--like diarrhea and fever--while traveling outside the United States.
When I applied to be on The Real World this past summer, I had a single goal in mind. The house, the vacation, the roommates, the new city were all unimportant. I was in it for the clothes. What clothes, you ask? Well, here's my plan (feel free to...
"I probably just touched something and didn't wash my hands before I ate," says Peter D. Richards '01, who deferred his first year of college to travel to Egypt with his brother.
Diseases like malaria and yellow fever, which almost never occur in the U.S., are everyday occurrences in many underdeveloped countries where, because of poverty, standards of sanitation and public health are lacking.
Many Harvard students spend summers and semesters abroad, increasingly in developing countries. About 150 join study abroad programs in general each year, and an additional 25 work abroad with the Weissman program. Many other students participate in programs not run by the Office of Career Services (OCS), according to International...