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Published: December 26, 2007
Travel insurance can help when vacations go awry
By Chuck Mai
Vacations are special occasions that often create lasting memories of new adventures, hometowns revisited, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences you can cherish forever.

And then, there are some memories you would rather forget — the lost suitcase on the trip to Florida , the broken leg on the ski vacation to Steamboat Springs , or little Tommy's emergency appendectomy that forces the family to cancel its Caribbean ...

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...000 Americans were hospitalized with appendicitis, according to the Centers for Disease...appendix may be still useful, the rate of appendicitis is lower than in the U.S., other...About 300 to 400 Americans die of appendicitis each year, according to the CDC...

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