Vaccinations for May
Traveling in May 2025. Reading the blogs I'm confused about Yellow Fever and Hepatitis vaccines. Any recommendations: I see where bringing malaria pills is recommended. Thanks for your help!
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Traveling in May 2025. Reading the blogs I'm confused about Yellow Fever and Hepatitis vaccines. Any recommendations: I see where bringing malaria pills is recommended. Thanks for your help!
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Talk to your travel doctor Take a map and list of where you are going
The CDC website will tell you what vaccines you need for different countries. You can purchase malaria pills without a prescription in South Africa. You don't need malaria pills for South Africa but you do for other countries. You can start the malaria pills while you're in South Africa. The pills were about $50 per person, if I recall correctly.
A script from your regular doctor should cost less than that Also, you are traveling in May, so it’s too late to have full protection from any Hepatitis vaccine you might get, it required more than one.
Given the chaos (this is not a political position, merely fact), I am not sure I would rely on the CDC's website being updated regularly or even with accurate information any longer. I would do what British suggested by conferring with a trusted personal physician.
If you don’t trust the CDC being up to date, and Kfnknfzk may be correct on this in the present situation, then use the UK site, I’ll find the link and post it, I often use it, it’s excellent.
Here we are….. https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/travel-vaccinations/
Sophie, we are also going in May (16) tour. My doctor gave me a prescription for Doxycycline for Malaria as I am a mosquito magnet and want to take no chances. Dr. and I discussed the options, and both agreed that this worked best for me (except for the fact you must keep taking it for four weeks after you are home. It is an antibiotic. I think Yellow Fever vaccine is for the Serengeti safaris, not S. Africa. We have no plans for any other vaccinations, although I am up to date on all the basics.
Thank you, British. I didn't open your link but trust it is an excellent source. It never occurred to me to check my own country's CDC equivalent. I'll do that this weekend. Thanks.
Kfnknfzk, I found the Denmark page but then lost it. The page is not very user friendly but it’s interesting to see another country’s info
I'm surprised it is in English since the agency can't be very large. I'll look tomorrow. I guess we have digressed.