Current warnings for August 2008

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 27 destinations: Chad, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Eritrea, Côte d’Ivoire, Lebanon, Somalia, Nepal, Haiti, Burundi, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Central African Republic, Kenya, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Afghanistan, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.

For details, call the State Department at 202/647-5225 or visit http://travel.state.gov/travel/warnings.html.

For health news, call the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention at 888/246-2675 or visit www.cdc.gov… or visit the World Health Organization website at www.who.int.