Malaria medication?
Undecided whether to take Malaria medication or not for Bridges Tanzania Safari early August 2024. Enjoyed Tauck Classic Tanzania Kenya Safari in September 2015 and did not take malaria medication. We do not remember any time during our safari when mosquitoes were an issue. Feedback appreciated 🤔
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We are on the tour now. It’s entirely your choice, it should not be influenced by others as it is your health. We are a group of 9. My husband and I are not taking Malaria meds because after years of no problems, we had issues on our last tour and had to stop it. I had severe diarrhea and had to take Cipro. Of the other seven, one has had to stop it because of pretty bad GI issues. There are mosquito around, had at least one buzzing around us in our tent one evening, we could not zap it with the bug spray provided and it smelt awful. The African mosquitoes are hard to spot. but they are there, they are solitary. We all wear clothing that fully covers our arms and legs and use Deet in exposed areas. Tsetse flies are in abundance here on the Serengeti, example, my son got bitten through a thickish pair of long pants when we were on a safari last night that drew blood to the outside of his pants. The young grandsons were in another vehicle and spent their entire time gleefully swatting the tsetse flies instead of looking for animals. They said they got 20.
(sarcasm on) I would certainly heed advice from random strangers on the internet, rather than rely on the CDC website and/or my physician (sarcasm off)
We just returned from K&T. We used Deet a few times, and encountered tsetse flies a couple times. I don’t think we encountered any mosquitos. No one brought up the subject of malaria meds. They did ask for proof of yellow fever vaccination at the border with Kenya.
Thank you for your feedback 🤔