Injections for Kenya?

I'm about to go on a safari in Kenya (actually a dual sight trip - one week
safari and one week beach).

Can anyone advise me what injections (or other means of inoculation) I need
before I go?

Cheers.

Bobby

In message
"Bobby" wrote:

I'm about to go on a safari in Kenya (actually a dual sight trip - one week
safari and one week beach).

Can anyone advise me what injections (or other means of inoculation) I need
before I go?

Your best bet is to go to a doctor/travel nurse/travel clinic for
information which will take your personal medical history into
consideration. Don't even think about going without taking malaria tablets
at the very least.

Safari njema and slainte mhath

Liz


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In article , "Bobby"
wrote:

I'm about to go on a safari in Kenya (actually a dual sight trip - one week
safari and one week beach).

Can anyone advise me what injections (or other means of inoculation) I need
before I go?

for _injections_, at least a tetanus update. I got hep A (b advisable
too), typhoid (though that can be oral as I took), yellow fever.

In article ,
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
In article , "Bobby"
wrote:

I'm about to go on a safari in Kenya (actually a dual sight trip - one week
safari and one week beach).

Can anyone advise me what injections (or other means of inoculation) I need
before I go?

for _injections_, at least a tetanus update. I got hep A (b advisable
too), typhoid (though that can be oral as I took), yellow fever.

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/


Claude

Definetely you require a valid yellow fever certifcate

Cheers
Justin Miles


"claudel" wrote in message
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In article ,
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
In article , "Bobby"
wrote:

I'm about to go on a safari in Kenya (actually a dual sight trip - one
week
safari and one week beach).

Can anyone advise me what injections (or other means of inoculation) I
need
before I go?

for _injections_, at least a tetanus update. I got hep A (b advisable
too), typhoid (though that can be oral as I took), yellow fever.

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/


Claude

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:14:00 +0200, "Justin Miles"
wrote:

Definetely you require a valid yellow fever certifcate

Justin,

you definitely do not need any yellow fever certificate when you
visit Kenya.

Hans-Georg

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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:30:08 GMT,
(claudel) wrote:

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/

Claude,

good web site, but of course it issues blanket recommendations.

A tourist spending only a few weeks in selected areas doesn't
need most of them. They are also not required.

The big exception is malaria.

Hans-Georg

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In article ,
Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:30:08 GMT,
(claudel) wrote:

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/

Claude,

good web site, but of course it issues blanket recommendations.

A tourist spending only a few weeks in selected areas doesn't
need most of them. They are also not required.

The big exception is malaria.


Perhaps some of the immunizations are not required, but
personally I'd rather get an extra shot or two and not
be one of those on the sad end of the statistics...


Claude

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:42:40 GMT,
(claudel) wrote:

In article ,
Hans-Georg Michna wrote:

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:30:08 GMT,
(claudel) wrote:

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/

good web site, but of course it issues blanket recommendations.

A tourist spending only a few weeks in selected areas doesn't
need most of them. They are also not required.

The big exception is malaria.

Perhaps some of the immunizations are not required, but
personally I'd rather get an extra shot or two and not
be one of those on the sad end of the statistics...

Claude,

if only it were that simple. The problem is that the injection
has its own side effects. A few people die from inoculations.
Taking a few extra shots doesn't necessarily put you on the safe
side. Also, they cost money that you could spend on other things
that increase your likely lifespan.

Another problem is a mathematical one. It is always difficult to
treat very small risks properly, and people tend to be unable to
deal with them (so they play the lottery, for example).

To give an example, you pay money for a shot that decreases your
one-in-a-billion chance to die from yellow fever during your
two-week vacation. Then you cross the street in Nairobi and
incur a one-in-a-million (a thousand times higher) risk to get
run over by a car (particularly because the cars come from the
wrong side, but that's another matter). If you spent that same
money on a local guide, it might be vastly more effective in
decreasing your total small risk of premature death.

Even spending the same amount of money on reducing the residual
malaria risk further may be more efficient, for example by
selecting and buying the most efficient insect repellant (which
would reduce your yellow fever risk at the same time, by the
way).

In short, the yellow fever shot may not be the most
cost-efficient way to prolong your life.

I will only mention on the side that you could probably save the
live of a sick African child by spending that same money on him,
rather than on yourself.

Hans-Georg

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Definetely you require a valid yellow fever certifcate

Cheers
Justin Miles


"claudel" wrote in message
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In article ,
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
In article , "Bobby"
wrote:

I'm about to go on a safari in Kenya (actually a dual sight trip - one
week
safari and one week beach).

Can anyone advise me what injections (or other means of inoculation) I
need
before I go?

for _injections_, at least a tetanus update. I got hep A (b advisable
too), typhoid (though that can be oral as I took), yellow fever.

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/


Claude