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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required
anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:45:30 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote: What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? I've just returned from Kenya and had a whole host of vaccinations, I think I had Typhoid, Hepatitis A, and Diphtheria. I must have forgotten a few because I had at least four... URL: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/travel/africa/kenya.shtml and URL: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/travel/africa/tanzania.shtml might help you out Guttorm |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? I don't know about the newest requirements - but in February this year the Tanzanian immigration officers at Kilimanjaro International Airport wanted to see the vaccination certificate (in 2000, the Kenyan immigration at Nairobi Airport couldn't have cared less). Whether it is required or not, a set of vaccinations are definitely recommended! And don't forget the antimalarials. / Jarna |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
As far as I know, Yellow Fever is definitely still officially
required. Cholera is also required, but ineffective. Whether anyone actually checks your vaccination card or no, is up to the border post. For example, I was asked to show the card between Zambia and Tanzania at Tunduma, but not at the border between Malawi and Tanzania. Also, I understand that your Yellow Fever vaccination is actually more important when arriving back in Europe from a Yellow Fever area. Regards, Marc - Johannesburg On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:45:30 GMT, Not the Karl Orff wrote: What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? As far as my obsolete knowledge goes, no vaccinations are required at all if you enter from a country where the diseases like yellow fever are not endemic. Some vaccinations may be required when you enter from the neighboring countries, most likely yellow fever. When you visit Kenya as a tourist for a relatively short time and when no current outbreak is going on then you don't actually need or want any vaccinations against tropical diseases. The only thing you really want is protection against malaria, i.e. 1. Malaria prophylaxis (or in special cases a cure dose in your bag) 2. Mosquito net (already there in lodges and good hotels, but do use it) 3. Insect repellant Malaria can kill. One woman living near my place died a few weeks ago in Germany after returning from the Kenyan coast. She obviously didn't protect herself. She got sick with flu-like symptoms. She went to her doctor, but didn't tell him she'd been in Kenya recently. He misdiagnosed, for which I can almost not blame him under the circumstances, sent her home with flu medication. A few days later (maybe two) she was dead. A postmortem determined malaria tropica, caused by Plasmodium falciparum. It keeps happening in spite of all the good information that's available. She did everything wrong. Another woman in my near vicinity protected herself carefully, but didn't use malaria prophylaxis, instead carried the already mentioned cure dose plus mosquito nets plus insect repellant. A few days after returning to Germany she got a fever. In full knowledge of the danger she immediately went to the tropical disease institute in Munich. They immediately tested very thoroughly for malaria, but couldn't find any. The cause of the fever remained unknown, but it subsided soon. What a difference knowledge can make! :-) The real danger in Kenya is not yellow fever or cholera, it is malaria. Cholera is anyway not very dangerous for a healthy, well fed person with access to medical treatment. I think it can't hurt to have vaccinations against hepatitis and tetanus, but these are useful everywhere, even back home. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
On Tue, 04 May 2004 19:42:57 +0200, Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
Not the Karl Orff wrote: What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? As far as my obsolete knowledge goes, no vaccinations are required at all if you enter from a country where the diseases like yellow fever are not endemic. Some vaccinations may be required when you enter from the neighboring countries, most likely yellow fever. When you visit Kenya as a tourist for a relatively short time and when no current outbreak is going on then you don't actually need or want any vaccinations against tropical diseases. The only thing you really want is protection against malaria, Is there a reason to not have the yellow fever jab "just in case". Mine made me feel bad for a day or so, but I wasn't aware of any serious potential problems. J; -- Encrypted e-mail address. Click to mail me: http://cerbermail.com/?nKYh3qN4YG |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
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Jeremy Henderson wrote: Is there a reason to not have the yellow fever jab "just in case". Mine made me feel bad for a day or so, but I wasn't aware of any serious potential problems. Just a precaution. I was evaluatng not having it other than that I would probably need it to enter some countries. |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
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Hans-Georg Michna wrote: Not the Karl Orff wrote: What's the required vaccinations? It seems yellow fever isn't required anymore (at least according to some "officia" kenya/tanzania websites)? How about countries that require you to have it if you go to various places where it is supposed to be endemic? As far as my obsolete knowledge goes, no vaccinations are required at all if you enter from a country where the diseases like yellow fever are not endemic. Some vaccinations may be required when you enter from the neighboring countries, most likely yellow fever. That last statement seems to be the only reason to get one ahead of time. I know Thailand is sticky about that if you have visited Africa or S. America shortly before. The only thing you really want is protection against malaria, We'll be taking doxycycline and will get some permethrin for the clothes. |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
Jeremy Henderson wrote:
Is there a reason to not have the yellow fever jab "just in case". Mine made me feel bad for a day or so, but I wasn't aware of any serious potential problems. Jeremy, it is always a tradeoff. When the risk of actually catching yellow fever is very low and the risk of dying from it even lower, then it may be wise to avoid the risk of side effects from the vaccination. The problem is that the doctors have yet another factor to consider---their own income. Therefore they tend to present the facts such that you're induced to ask (and pay) for treatment. It is, in fact, quite difficult to find any risk figures at all. You could ask how many people died from yellow fever and how many people died from traffic accidents (not to mention smoking) in the same time period. If, for example, you find that a couple of thousands died from road accidents in a year, but nobody died from yellow fever, then you might reduce your risk of dying much more by concentrating on avoiding the dangerous road traffic than by getting a yellow fever vaccination. The yellow fever risk would then be insignificant in comparison. Learning to look to the other side instead, in a left hand traffic country like Kenya, already reduces your risk of dying much more than all vaccinations together ever could. It would therefore actually increase your risk if you chose the vaccination, but forwent the other, much more effective precautions. The whole thing becomes even more obviously counterproductive if the risk of getting sick from side effects is bigger than the risk of actually contracting the disease. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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Required vaccination for Tanzania/Kenya?
Not the Karl Orff wrote:
We'll be taking doxycycline and will get some permethrin for the clothes. That's good, but I'm pretty sure Malarone would be better than doxycycline. The latter is much cheaper, but has at least one unpleasant side effect (skin sunlight sensitivity), not to mention any possible digestion problems from any broader antibioticum. Also, Malarone is still very close to 100% effective. But certainly doxycycline is vastly better than no prevention drug at all. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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