Travel insurance holders should be covered for swine flu
Travellers are being urged to treat swine flu like any other illness when it comes to heading off on their summer holiday, a travel insurance provider has said.
"If a traveller is beginning to feel under the weather, as often happens, we would think it natural that they may continue to travel in the hope that their discomfort is temporary," explained Christian Young, director of AA Travel Insurance.
He went on to say that people should rest assured that if an airline refuses to let a passenger travel due to illness - and it is outside of that person's control - then they should be covered by their travel insurance policy.
Mr Young said that whether travellers seek treatment and then feel too ill to travel, or whether they are prevented from travelling, as long as the illness has been diagnosed and it developed after a holiday insurance policy was taken out, then they should be able to claim.
Thermal body scanners have been introduced in the airports of some holiday destinations such as Thailand, China and Egypt in an attempt to identify passengers carrying a fever.
Cheap holiday insurance from Direct Travel Insurance could be one way to keep total holiday expenditure down.
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