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YellowFella
Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 1:33 am Post subject: Without Immunizations! |
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Hey, I just came to Korea w/out getting immunized. Totally slipped my mind. Now I may stay for a year cuz I'm getting a job. What should I do, my fellow Americans? and North Americans ?
If anyone has gotten their shots here, please advise on how to, and what to get. Thanks much, everyone. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...
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Canuck
Joined: 05 Apr 2003
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:54 am Post subject: |
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Im gonna say something very controversial.Immunizations are overrated anyway. If you had the usual ones like Polio etc when young you should be fine. I came here with no shots. Went to Thailand/Malaysia/Singapore with no shots. Travelled all over Eastern Europe with no shots. I dont think I have anything. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: |
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Travelled through Thailand (last Nov/Dec) with shots and still picked up Typhoid. Nasty, nasty business... though mum insists that if I hadn't had the shots at all, I would have been a lot worse off. |
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Canuck
Joined: 05 Apr 2003
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:01 am Post subject: |
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Actually, sorry. I got the Typhoid shot when going to Thailand. But thats all. |
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Dazed and Confused
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:15 am Post subject: |
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I've been all over the place and never took any shots. Except for the flu shots.
Did get hep B but that was in AMERICA in 1990!
Only illness I've ever got from travelling was stomache trouble. The last time I went to SE Asia I went to the dr and got a months supple of meds and was fine the entire time.
Get the immunizations if you feel you need them but I think there are alot of us out there travelling that don't worry about it. |
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kylehawkins2000
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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I think the shots are overrated as well. International travel clinics back home tend to over-exaggerate the risks. I got some shots here in Korea. THe hospital I went to didn't hvae any English Speaking Staff so I had to go with my director. It was quick and easy and very cheap! 5000won for each shot. Back home I would have paid something like $60 a pop. |
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