Originally Posted by Camel
All great advice. I would add the Typhoid fever vaccination, and stress including the Hepatitis A&B vaccine series' (as opposed to Gammaglobulin). Give yourself a goodly 3 month lead time, as the HepB series takes this long for 3 shots.
Perhaps include the rabies series as well-depending on the style of touring you will be doing (?incuding trekking/camping). Remember it's not just dogs that may carry rabies-travelling through a bat infested area as an example. This series is not full protection, but gives you extra time to get to a clinic/doctor, and also reduces the number of post exposure shots required.
My HMO gave me vaccines for only 1 co-pay (?20$)s, but I allready had the Hep B series+booster(s). Oddly I'm still not a responder (ie no measureable titer).
Tbanks..I forgot the Typhoid fever one, I did get that. Glad to hear they have gone beyond the Gamma Globulin thing for Hep A. I had the Hep B series in the early 1980s anyway, when there was anecdotal evidence that hep B antigens might help battle HIV strains. The problem is that the darn thing doesn't always work, or show measureable titer levels.
On a humorous note, I was at our good ol' local VD clinic a few months ago (
no lewd comments! I go once a year just as part of my health regimen! nyah nyah. ) and I asked them to se if they could detect any malarial parasites in my blood. The nurse chuckled and asked me,
why? have you been having anal sex with mosquitos?
Ahh...the joys of cycling.
roughstuff