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    Do you get inoculated before you travel to Asia

    Has anyone had jabs off the doctor before they go to Thailand
    I have heard you can pick up hepatitis and other nasty viruses especially out in the sticks where I am.
    I have never had anything but am I being naive.
    I am a rough old dog that rarely gets ill but I am a little concerned after talking to a mate who took ill in India
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    Hep A
    Hep B
    Japanese Encephalitis

    on top of the standard 'western' vaccinations.

    Once you got the complete course of a vaccine, it's good for 10 years or so.
    The risk of infection isn't high, but better safe than sorry me thinks.

    Still managed to contract malaria and a rare type of hep over the years.

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    ^ Agreeing with the Hep A and B jabs ... but that should be part of your vaccine program living in the West.

    Also, something to consider is updating your vaccine for someone over the age of 50.
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    So you guys get them?
    I will ring the doctors in the morning
    I never give it a thought before
    There's some mangy geezers round the villages and I have often got drunk with them
    They all share the same glass I've noticed when they drink Lau khow that can't be good

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    When I was younger & stupider, I used to drink from the same glass as others, during the 'rounds' of the glass. Usually powdered grape juice spiked w/ something nasty. When I grew up (heh), I became more conscious of what I drank & who I drank with. The last time I had the 'rounds' was 5 yrs ago, I think. That time, I drank from my own glass. Some of my drink-mates thought I was snobbish that I didn't want to drink from the glass doing the rounds, but my thought was, better be a snob than sorry.

    I didn't get vaccinated when I went to Myanmar, but on hindsight, I think I should've, since Myanmar has malaria. When I got home, I got paranoid abt my slight fever, thinking it was malaria since many moskies bit me, even though I applied insect repellant. Fortunately it wasnt malaria, just exhaustion & slight fever.

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    Get the jabs, might as well

    As regards Malaria there is no vaccine - but medications can be taken to help prevent catching it.
    Once I took a mefloqine (Lariam) tablets and they made me very ill indeed, so it's a risk too..

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbobs
    There's some mangy geezers round the villages and I have often got drunk with them
    They all share the same glass I've noticed when they drink Lau khow that can't be good
    These guys are the survivors Jim. They have built up immunity over the years, eating soil when they were kids. Just don't go swapping spit with 'em.

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    I've lived in Asia for 40 years or so, and no longer bother. Until I retired in 2000, my employer insisted on all the basic jabs. I've had dengue, two kinds of malaria, and other crap, all while I was working and getting regular jabs.

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    I don't. I did contract Dengue once though. It was whatever

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    No. No need.


    Though, I've been known to take the precautionary inoculations when visiting the West.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post

    Get the jabs, might as well
    When I was on the Job Hep A and B where compulsory for front line staff.

    I recon i had those Jabs over 10 years ago though so times up.

    I'm of to Nepal soon so I suppose i should pop down the Hospital and get them done.

    Nice thought there Jimmy Boy.

    Thanks for the reminder.

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    30/40 years ago, if I remember correctly you had to keep up with inoculations or you couldn't travel?
    Recall getting "shots" at the airports and they would stamp your card?
    Hazy memories now, still have some of the old cards - somewhere!!

    Don't bother now, rely on the inbuilt immune system! recall getting quite sick from some of the shots you had to take!

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    ^ The Yellow Health Card...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbobs
    I am a little concerned after talking to a mate who took ill in India
    Part of the reason he got sick is because he went to India. If you are not going to India you won't be sick ! This is a comment about travel more than India.

    If you don't travel much and don't come into direct contact with others, you should be OK. That being said there are many things out there that you can get that have no inoculation. Like, say, Guilian-Barre Syndrome. GBS is related to Japanese Encephalitis for which there is a jab.

    It is the insect-borne ones that could be the most worrying but even then the insects don't actually have the illness they are carriers so someone near you has to have it.

    Next time you come to Bangkok visit the Mahidol Dept. Of Tropical Medicine. They have inexpensive jabs for mostly everything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    ^ The Yellow Health Card...
    Carried that in my passport case for years - I think I was once asked to show it. Probably still around here somewhere.

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    Yes, before I went to Toyland, I had a lobotomy...


    ...and immunization from ladyboys and stalkers...

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    No never bothered, been here over 10 years no problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stroller View Post
    Hep A
    Hep B
    Japanese Encephalitis

    on top of the standard 'western' vaccinations.

    Once you got the complete course of a vaccine, it's good for 10 years or so.
    better safe than sorry me thinks.
    This is what I did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbobs
    There's some mangy geezers round the villages and I have often got drunk with them They all share the same glass I've noticed when they drink Lau khow that can't be good
    Yep, same in our village, that's enough for a Hep A transmission. Also watch out for the uncooked Laab and worse raw Fish Laab, tastes great but one can (I did) catch liver flukes - it's endemic in Issan.

    Malaria and Dengue there are no vaccines for, just keep the mozzies out of the house, specially bedroom.

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    Btw, some of these vaccines are controversial, Hep A for example offers only a partial immunisation at best - yet it's the most important one IMHO.
    The others I wouldn't bother with if I didn't intend to live in Thailand, rather than spending holidays.

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    Is there any way they can test your blood to see whether the vaccinations are ok? I remember doing them the first time i went to Thailand. But can't remember if i got booster ones a few years later when I went to Africa.

    Also, have no idea where the Vaccination Book is!!

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    [quote=VocalNeal;3413485

    Part of the reason he got sick is because he went to India. If you are not going to India you won't be sick ! This is a comment about travel more than India. [/quote]


    I've traveled India 4 times and I recon if one can survive that seething fetid shit hole one can just about survive nuclear fallout.

    It really is fuking horrid.

    Even so, recon I'll still get Jabbed up for Nepal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbobs
    Do you get inoculated before you travel to Asia

    surely you mean intoxicated, Jim

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    Given the prevalence of disease in Asia, and the ease with which one can get free inoculations (at least in the UK) it would be imprudent not to protect oneself, at least against the more common ailments such as Hep A, B, typhoid and tetanus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by terry57
    I'll still get Jabbed up for Nepal.
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