Sunday, November 04, 2007

Trip Shots and immunization

It's 3rd world and you need all sorts of injections so you don't drop dead of some disease. For people that have visited Africa and the Amazon, you know what I am talking about.

For this venture we needed:
  • Tetanus (good for 10 years)
  • Typhoid (good for 5 years)
  • Hepatitis A (good for 30 years)
  • Hepatitis B (good for 30 years)
  • Malaria pills taken 2 days prior and for 7 days after you get back
It's mostly about the mosquitoes and the food. Basically you bring enough deet to take a bath in, warding off all the infecting biting critters. Being from Minnesota should help me be used to these pests. The food is about being careful much like visiting Tijuana and having a good supply of drugs that will nuke anything that messes with you. 
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onlyincambodia said...

(Hi, got your blog address from Jonnie whom I'm currently working with.)
Actually, I just recently came back from living in Cambodia for four years, and I NEVER used malaria pills and RARELY used mosquito spray. I never got malaria or dengue fever.
Now this is not to say that it doesn't happen because it does.
However, you'll be going at the beginning of the dry season when there are less issues with mosquitos, though it's still good to make sure your hotel/guesthouse rooms have window screens and/or mosquito nets over the bed if no screen.
Pay attention to early morning and evening hours as mosquitos are more plentiful at those times. Generally, the cities (Phnom Penh and Siem Reap) have been treated to prevent malaria and dengue, but the countryside areas are still high risk.
Feel free to contact me with any questions as me and my partner run a locally-based (out of Siem Reap)tour operation that covers SE Asia, particularly Cambodia and Vietnam. He's there now and loves meeting new people!

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