Central America

United States Virgin Islands

Location

Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico.

Personal security, general travel, navigation, building/office security, hot weather injuries, personal hygiene, sanitation/sterilisation, clothing & equipment, emergency first aid, cultures/customs, communications, emergency shelters.

Use bottled water.

Mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land.

Subtropical, tempered by easterly trade winds, relatively low humidity, little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season September to November.

Several hurricanes in recent years; frequent and severe droughts and floods; occasional earthquakes.

Hepatitis A, polio, typhoid.

Lack of natural freshwater resources.

Hostile Environments and Emergency First Aid Training (HEFAT®) (5 days)
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