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katsu · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: here and there

thanx everyone for your input!

in terms of the shots, I had them because I do want to travel throughout Asia (Tibet, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan). I'm not really worried that much about South Korea, but the other places that I want to visit...

Although I haven't bought out my malaria prescription pills yey and I'm wondering whether I need to buy them cuz that's an additional $300 for 60 pills... Question

Tweekville · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Location: hai-yang

watch out for those pills. They are usually something called quinine. You have to take them for something like 2 weeks before and after you want them to be effective. The problem is that they will make you sick the entire time you are taking them. If you are really going to take them, try it before you go and if you start puking within a couple days, you should stop. They are the perfect way to ruin a good trip.

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

katsu · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: here and there

hmm

Well right now I'm in Canada...but leaving in about 2 weeks to Korea for a year...The doctor told me that aside from getting vaccinated for polio, tetanus/diphteria, cholera, hepatitas A and hep B, japanese encephalitis, typhoid fever, and traveller's diarrhea (for all of which i almost paid $1000.00 CAD), i should also get pills for malaria, additional $300.00 for 60 pills. He said to take 1 pill once a week for my whole stay in Asia, and 1 week prior to going and 2 weeks after I get back to Canada...that's why 60. Another person that I know got prescribed the same thing and she's going to Korea as well..

He said we need to take them for 60 weeks straight to be fully protected...

Is this all bull what the doc is saying?

I mean it would make sense to get malaria pills while i'm in Korea prior to travelling to malaria infected places, instead of getting all the pills now...all i know is that i definately do not want to worry about getting sick while i'm in Korea. I'm going to be spending a lot of time outdoors and I don't exactly want to spend all that time looking/staying away from mosquitos, which seem to like me, at least here in Canada...

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

katsu · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: here and there

thanx for posting the map huffdaddy!

desultude · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:13 am Post subject:

I am assuming, based on the prices, that the OP is in the U.S.

I am currently in Florida, and got vaccinations a few months ago for India.

I got the basics- Hep A and B, polio, flu, tetanus, and a few other things.

I paid about $125 U.S., at the travel clinic at the local public health office. I was so pleased and shocked to find out that this service was available in the U.S.

And, about the malaria pills, be very very careful. Some people have no problems, some have some pretty serious effects. You don't want to sort out which group you belong to somewhere in a village in India. Use good mossie repellent, and a net at night, if needed.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

You need to check and see that the Twinrix works.

I've had two lots of it and it never worked. Tried another Hep A and B vaccine as well and it never worked either.

I'm one of the 5% who can't be immunised against it.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Also buy malaria drugs when you are out here. Lot cheaper.

katsu · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: here and there

--desultude--wow, you paid really cheap then! i thought for sure that it would be twice as much in the States...

thanx mrsquirrel, i think it is indeed a good idea to get my malaria pills in korea prior to travelling to other east and south asian countries

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

huffdaddy: Nice map, but Korea and surrounding areas are all in white, meaning no malaria!

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

Ah!! Got it! Sorry!! Embarassed

desultude · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

igotthisguitar · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject:

Maryland Nurse Died from Smallpox Vaccine Administered
Despite Opposition

A comprehensive vaccine program should include a comprehensive compensation program for those injured.

Andrea Deerheart Cornitcher, 55, a nurse in Salisbury, MD volunteered to take the smallpox vaccination after the Bush Administration unveiled its plan to have all health care professionals vaccinated in response to 9/11.

On March 23, 2003, five days after receiving the vaccine, Andrea had a heart attack and died. The evening before her death, Andrea began vomiting and collapsed in the Arlington home of a friend, but they
thought she had food poisoning. Sadly, they were wrong�she had a heart attack and died during the night.

Andrea was the first of three people to die within the same week in March 2003 of a heart attack after receiving the smallpox vaccine. Virginia Jorgensen, 57, a nurse's assistant in Florida, was vaccinated and died on March 26, ten days after suffering a heart attack. And, Lloyd Clements Jr., a 55-year-old national guardsman on active duty, died of a heart attack on the same day, a mere two days after his inoculation.

After these deaths from heart attacks, the smallpox vaccination program was put on hold

http://www.atla.org/pressroom/vaccinesafety/acornitcher.aspx