Current travel warnings

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American citizens therefore are urged to avoid the areas of demonstrations if possible and to exercise caution if within the vicinity of any demonstrations. Embassy Dhaka’s web site at http://dhaka.usembassy.gov/ . American citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness. This replaces the Worldwide Caution dated July 16, 2008 to provide updated information on security threats and terrorist activities worldwide. Americans should be mindful that even demonstrations intended to be peaceful could turn confrontational and possibly escalate into violence. American citizens are therefore urged to avoid the areas of demonstrations if possible, and to exercise caution if within the vicinity of any demonstrations.

Students should seek specific advice either from a primary practitioner with expertise in travel medicine or from a specialist travel advisory centre (such as Travel Doctor TMVC ). This website has locations of a number of travel medicine clinics, but many local GPs also have an interest in travel medicine. Students should always consult State Department consular information sheets for countries in which they plan to travel or study before finalizing plans to go there. These consular information sheets contain more detailed safety and security information, as well as other important health, political, and other information that students should be familiar with.

State Department is written from a culturally specific perspective — an American political perspective. Due to the relationship between the United States and some countries, advisories may be very general. State Department on every country of the world, including location of the U.S. Embassy or Consulate, unusual immigration practices, health conditions, minor political disturbances, and unusual currency and entry regulations. State Department maintains a current list of travel warnings, which are recommendations that Americans avoid travel to a certain country. Travel alerts, by contrast, are a means of disseminating information about terrorist threats and other relatively short-term and/or transnational conditions posing significant risks to the security of American travelers.