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Can we get vaccination's under our K-health card plan for free or at reduced prices? Anyone any experience w/ this?

[nobbyken]

If I was the OP,

After receiving my bill,
I would have asked, "What you inject me with, Heroin!"

[igotthisguitar]

Speaking of travel, anyone get any GOOD CHEST X-RAYS lately?

Parents Use Religion To Avoid Vaccines
By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 17, 6:19 PM ET

BOSTON - Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her deeply held religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required to enter preschool.

She is among a small but growing number of parents around the country who are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses. Some of these parents say they are being forced to lie because of the way the vaccination laws are written in their states.

"It's misleading," Rahim admitted, but she said she fears that earlier vaccinations may be to blame for her son's autism. "I find it very troubling, but for my son's safety, I feel this is the only option we have."

An Associated Press examination of states' vaccination records and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that many states are seeing increases in the rate of religious exemptions claimed for kindergartners.

"Do I think that religious exemptions have become the default? Absolutely," said Dr. Paul Offit, head of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and one of the harshest critics of the anti-vaccine movement. He said the resistance to vaccines is "an irrational, fear-based decision."

The number of exemptions is extremely small in percentage terms and represents just a few thousand of the 3.7 million children entering kindergarten in 2005, the most recent figure available.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_re_us/vaccine_skeptics;_ylt=ArB0oACznWJhYk82vCSEEEoDW7oF

[superdave]

[moosehead]

[sunhelen]

Japanese encephalitis and the cholera vaccines are rare so they are probably quite expensive. You don't need anything so exotic to live here.

[superdave]

[Dome Vans]

[Hank the Iconoclast]

I had Hep A, Hep B and Typhoid vaccines before I arrived in South Korea. I had my Hep B series of shots in sixth grade and my Hep A shots over the last few years. Only had to pay for the Typhoid shot which I got in 2004 and this year. I fogot my Tetanus shot which I also got this year and that is good for ten years.

[tired of LA]

i just went to the doctors today to get some shots and it was pretty cheap, 60,000 won for a tetanus booster, typhoid and japanese encephalitis. i have the national health insurance so i'm pretty sure it was covered under it. the only thing was that the doctor said japanese encephalitis was only 1 shot and not a series of 3 shots. whether or not its covered under insurance depends on what vaccine you're getting because i went to the same hospital to get my second shot of hep A when i first got here and that cost me 80,000 won.

[Mariner]

In the US.

Got my twinrix which is the combo Hep A and Hep B shot. After calling 2 doctors offices, 2 pharmacies, and the DOH I found out its not easy to get adult vaccinations. I found a travel clinic at Bartell Drug Stores, cost of 1 shot in a series of 3. $149.00

Is there a cheaper place in the US to get shot 2 and 3?

[OiGirl]

Try the public health clinic. In some states, any one can do travel vaccinations, in other states, I had to travel a few counties away.

[injuredeagle]

Just a tip for folks looking to get vaccinations done:

I (mistakingly) went to Passport Health in the U.S. for my typhoid thinking local doctors wouldn't have it. Since I was there I got the Twinix and other shots.

Major rip off. They wanted $165 PER TWINIX shot and you need 3 of those. Later, I found out the county health clinic does these shots (plus typhoid and other rare vaccines) and it was that much for all 3 shots.

The person at Passport Health also really tried to upsell the malaria, bringing out some map from some website showing it all over Korea. This is not true. The CDC says the only problem is near the border of North Korea. But she was going on and on about how we should just take a bottle anyway and how its this crazy developing country and to watch out for rabid dogs, etc. etc.

Don't fall for it.

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