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South America vaccinations

  • 29-03-2007 10:47am
    #1
    Blue Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭


    Hi,
    Am heading to Peru and Bolivia in August/sept.
    Will be doing the Inca trail and travelling about a bit.

    I've just been looking at the TMB web site, they say I definatly need yellow fever and recommend tetanus, typhoid and hep A. I have the last three in any case and will get yellow fever as it is manditory.

    However they recommend if you are treking to get rabies and Hep B, are these necessary for the inca trail?

    They also recomment Tuberculosis and meningococcal meningitis if rural areas are to be visited, again are these necessary?

    Malaria - is this necessary?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Don't know bout the others but no vaccination for Malaria.

    Just tablets before entering the affected region.

    I'd recommend getting everything they say as it would be alot more inconvenient to contract something and alot more expensive too.

    k.


  • #3
    Blue Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Blue Duck


    I am aware there is no vacination for malaria, i was wondering if it was necessary to have protection against it whilst in these countries as the tmb site is quite vague.


  • #4
    Blue Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Blue Duck


    I am aware there is no vacination for malaria, i was wondering if it was necessary to have protection against it whilst in these countries as the tmb site is quite vague.


  • #5
    bringitdown
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    Was unaware yellow fever was req'd for Peru/Bolivia.

    Hep A, tetanus, typhoid, rabies yup had all of them going over there.

    Did not take anti-malarials.


  • #6
    Blue Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Blue Duck


    according to the TMB it is.

    Thanks for your response


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  • #7
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Blue Duck wrote:
    I am aware there is no vacination for malaria, i was wondering if it was necessary to have protection against it whilst in these countries as the tmb site is quite vague.

    Sorry, picked you up wrong.

    I'm heading over soon enough and want to go to rurrenabaque which is in the Amazon Basin, to go on a trip up the river to see wildlife etc. and supposedly that is a malarial area so yeah, malaria tabs will be necessary as far as i know.


  • #8
    pickarooney
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    There's virtual no malaria in the tourist-heavy aeas of the Amazon, and none whatsoever in the Andean highlands. It's entirely up to you what vaccinations you get, nobody will check you for certs. I got yellow fever and tetanus before going, that said.
    Hep B is pointless, unless you plan on sleeping around unprotected, IMO.


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