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Old 04-11-07 | 02:48 AM
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Why are you hesitant? Is it putting chemicals your body or needles in a foreign country?
No, I have confidence in the Thai Travel Clinic. I do not feel too good about vaccinations in general and live vaccines in particular.

A few years ago I read the book "The River" about development of the Polio vaccine. They used monkey kidneys to attenuate the virus and inadvertently infected millions of Americans with SV40 (Simian Virus 40) which is though to cause certain cancers.

We took a version of the malaria medication Lariam (Mefloquine) for the first few months in Africa but realized that it was counterproductive to take a medication for years and discontinued it. We carried along the most common cure (can't remember which) for malaria along with test kits in case we suspected infection. In the end we were never infected.
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