Tuesday, 2 September 2008
full of diseases
I'm not sure if this is a reaction to reading too many 'Hot Zone' type books when I was little (it is, it definitely is), but I'm getting every single vaccine I can get my hands on for this trip: Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Hepatitis B, Meningitis (4 strains), Tetanus, Diptheria, Polio, Cholera, Rabies, Yellow Fever, and of course, everyone's favorite anti-malarial, Malarone. This may sound like overkill, but if you spent all your time reading about 'The White Man's Grave' (nasty nickname for Sierra Leone and Liberia in the days before quinine), you might be a little cautious too...
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wow! i can't believe you're leaving so soon! when is your actual departure?
ben has nothing good to say about malarone (except, perhaps, the fact that it kept him from getting malaria), but it's waaay better than larium, which is what i took for 5 months. too bad you'll be missing out on the crazy dreams though:)
-andrea
haha, I can do without the crazy dreams I think (but they may have made good topics for posts...oh well!) I can't imagine 5 months of larium, except that malarone is so expensive, so 5 months of that would break the bank.
I'm leaving Sept 29, so a little time. just in the packing, planning, and visa-ing stage at the moment.
You're not getting all of these vaccines on the same day are you?
It has been found that if you get too many live vaccines at one time, part of your body can shut down (Brenna got 6 live vaccines in one day back in May 2006... 24 hours later, she was in the hospital & diagnosed with diabetes... too many live vaccines shut her pancreas down)
Be careful!
no, luckily. I don't think I'd be able to deal with the idea of more than 3 diseases in my bloodstream at a time! thanks for the head's up, though. poor Brenna - I can't imagine getting 6 vaccines at once! that's got to hurt :(
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