[:en]Let’s go back to the question. Is it necessary to get rabies vaccine before travel in Southeast Asia? As in any vaccine; we have to consider the risk of getting the diseases and the cost/side-effect of vaccine. Benefit of vaccines should clearly outweight the cost and side-effect of vaccine. In that case we’ll recommend the…
DetailsWell, it depends…..before we will answer the above question. Let’s begin with some practical knowledge of rabies: 1. Rabies is a zoonotic disease (animal borne); you may get rabies when you are bitten/licked by infected animals. 2. It is a fatal disease with no effective treatment available. Once a patient develops symptoms; he/she will eventually die. So it is an…
Details“I would like to travel here for ….. wks, which vaccine will you recommend?” This is a very common question in our travel clinic. Unfortunately, to answer this basic question is not as easy as it seems. Practically, we could not answer this question at once; we have to ask many questions back to obtain…
DetailsIn our travel clinic, people sometimes show us their malaria map which they printed from the Internet. Maps are very useful especially in the risk assessment process. They let us know roughly about the situation of malaria in that area. Unfortunately, not all maps are reliable. Some are out-of-date, some are mislabeled, and some are totally…
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