Asia

Uzbekistan

Location

Central Asia, north of Afghanistan.

Long travel by train should be avoided. Local airlines are reported to be unsafe. Weapons (assorted), vehicle security, personal security, ambushes, kidnappings, gunfire/snipers, legal/illegal checkpoints, armed robberies, general travel, navigation, off road driving, building/office security, cold weather injuries, clothing & equipment, emergency first aid, helicopter safety, cultures/customs, communications, civil disturbances/unrest, terrorism.

Use bottled water only.

Mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west.

Mostly mid-latitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semi-arid grassland in east.

Severe storms.

Cholera, diptheria, hepatitis A, malaria, polio, rabies, typhoid.
Hospital: International Medical Clinic, 4 Taras Shevchenko Street, Tashkent. Tel: 3712-560606

Shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilisers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT.

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