|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 4,612
|
Southeast Asia trip- vaccinations necessary?
My significant other/ g/f/wife... whatever you want to call her is going on a trip for two weeks to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with a couple of girlfriends while I am stuck at work. They are going on a tour for the first week and then free for the second week. The tour operator recommends Typhoid fever, Hep. ABC shots for their trip. One girl got the shots and got sick from them so one of the other girls decided to skip them.
Does the Pelican braintrust have an opinion on their necessity? Any suggestions on places they have to see or avoid while there?
__________________
Neil '73 911S targa Last edited by Neilk; 06-30-2008 at 07:20 AM.. Reason: spelling |
||
06-30-2008, 07:09 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: SoFLA
Posts: 5,536
|
My employee and his wife just returned from Vietnam. From what he told me, they had to get vaccinations in order to get their visa...
|
||
|
06-30-2008, 07:18 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hamburg & Vancouver
Posts: 7,693
|
Quote:
As for places to recommend - well there are too many! Get some good guidebooks.
__________________
_____________________ These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.—Groucho Marx |
||
|
06-30-2008, 07:18 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New York, NY USA
Posts: 4,269
|
Dallas must have travel doctors. Many of those practices around.. Big chart on the wall with all the bad stuff all over..
The malaria meds is a whole other thread. I took the once a day as the side effects are less than the once a week therapy. Plenty of goods sites on line regarding all these topics. It sounds like an adventure. |
||
|
06-30-2008, 07:46 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
i did them all except the malaria stuff. some of the stuff has a lead time, so she should get crackin. i went back for my boosters. i have the same gig planned for november. i am having second thoughts.
__________________
poof! gone |
||
|
06-30-2008, 09:08 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
I also skipped the Malaria shots. I think part of it depends on the type of travel you are doing, if you are visiting the cities, you won't run into mosquitos and have less of a risk of catching something. In fact, even when I have gone off on hikes in SE Asia, I haven't noticed any of the little buggers, certainly nothing like here in Ontario. Still, I think taking the shots is a reasonable precaution, and I didn't suffer any ill effects. I'll be there this summer, and won't be getting any new shots.
__________________
2012 911 Black Edition Cabriolet 2008 Cayman S Grey on Black - flooded, written off 1977 930 Turbo Carrera Black on Red #411 1987 951 Black on Black - sold to make room for the 930 1972 911 2.7 - I regret selling her every single day.... |
||
|
06-30-2008, 09:15 AM
|
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 8,673
|
There aren't malaria shots. They are PILLS. You need to start them before the trip and continue them after the trip.
Skipping them is malaria roulette. Just not smart. (nothing personal) It's the number one killer in the world. Polio booster is a good idea, too. Last edited by tcar; 06-30-2008 at 12:15 PM.. |
||
|
06-30-2008, 09:47 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 8,673
|
And, I've not heard of a West Nile vaccine. Didn't think there was anything for it, according to my doc.
I had it a year ago. Little something I brought back from a farm in west Texas. Sucks - really sick for 6 weeks. |
||
|
06-30-2008, 09:53 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New York, NY USA
Posts: 4,269
|
A pretty good malaria map of Cambodia:
http://www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/destinations/malariamaps/cambodia.htm |
||
|
06-30-2008, 09:54 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New York, NY USA
Posts: 4,269
|
|||
|
06-30-2008, 09:55 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: South of the Mason-Dixon Line
Posts: 3,722
|
Take everything imaginable and then take them again!!! Any G.I. who ventured over there was vaccinated with pretty much what was on the list you presented and then some. No shots for malaria only quinine pills. Hepititis series is a painful innoculation (gamma-gobulin), but thats the price of traveling to a third world country! Bottled water a must. From what I hear Nam has not changed much besides an explosion in population. Its a very poor country and I recall nothing was wasted, nothing! I was one of many who contracted malaria in country. If it were someone in my family headin over to Nam, I would have them go to the family physician and/or reserach the web and take what ever innoculations are necessary. One really bad bug over there can really ruin your day!!
Bob Vietnam 1968-1969 |
||
|
06-30-2008, 10:05 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 8,673
|
Quote:
If it's not, it could have been filled from the hose out back. |
||
|
06-30-2008, 10:16 AM
|
|
|
|
Registered
|
For my first trip to China I didn't bother with vaccinations, as it was middle of winter there. Second trip, however, was in summer. I got measles, mumps, rubella (one shot for all three), tetanus and hep. A. For hep. A you need a booster six mos. later.
__________________
2022 BMW 530i 2021 MB GLA250 2020 BMW R1250GS |
||
|
06-30-2008, 12:09 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hamburg & Vancouver
Posts: 7,693
|
Oh yes, get the Dengue fever prophylaxis as well.
As someone said, go to a doc in your area who knows something about tropical medicine. Much better to be smart about these things.
__________________
_____________________ These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.—Groucho Marx |
||
|
06-30-2008, 12:47 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
i got all of them since kaiser did it for free. not even a co-pay. the malaria pills scared me. isnt there a crazy side effect, like insanity? (or something)
i figured, DEET, and a mosquito netting was some protection. for the rest, i just kept all of my body parts out of any local's body parts. worked out great.
__________________
poof! gone |
||
|
06-30-2008, 02:03 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 8,673
|
Quote:
Some people have 'vivid' dreams, (I did) but that's not a big deal compared to malaria. |
||
|
06-30-2008, 02:09 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Oct 1999
Posts: 8,673
|
Quote:
Some people have 'vivid' dreams, (I did) but that's not a big deal compared to malaria, which can kill, or stay with you the rest of your life. |
||
|
06-30-2008, 02:10 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: outta here
Posts: 53,499
|
When I moved there years ago, we got 12 or 14, I can't remember which. Lot's of follow-up boosters twice a year. It sucked.
JR |
||
|
06-30-2008, 02:26 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Excelsior, MN
Posts: 387
|
Just got back from my honeymoon in Vietnam. Check the CDC web page. We were in Siagon, Hoi An, Da Nang, Hanoi and Halong Bay. No shots necessary just booster update. I was too late for anything and just went. No problems. Was there for 3 weeks.
Now if you go into the jungle, that's a different story.
__________________
"88 Commemorative Edition Carrera - RIP replacement - "90 Carrera 4 |
||
|
06-30-2008, 03:56 PM
|
|
Only Porsche
Only bike
