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**joanofarc** · 02-25-2004, 08:23 AM

butternut - wwm!

what are your recommendations?
i was thinking of hep a & typhoid... but it would cost me $291 for all of that plus some bogus consultation fee (okay, i'm bitter) - can i just give them a miss?

**Carisia** · 02-26-2004, 05:35 AM

hey joa! dunno about the typhoid, but i would definitely go w/ the hep., especially for se asian countries...

**joanofarc** · 02-26-2004, 08:11 AM

i guess that was really a rhetorical question.... damn - i knew i had to.
better safe than sorry i guess... but i still don't want to pay for travel insurance (don't tell cd!)

**Carisia** · 02-26-2004, 10:07 AM

I know it sucks, I know over the past 1.5 years I must have dished out over 300 bucks in vaccinations alone...

**urOZm8** · 02-26-2004, 09:25 PM

I just getting a tetanus shot today but Im only in Thailand a few days and the rest in Europe. I hope my arm doesnt hurt!!
Dont they say if you cant afford travel insurance you cant afford your trip?! Necessary evil I guess.

**Ozpacka** · 02-27-2004, 02:38 AM

Was going to get hep B shots before i left, but found out you actually need to do a course of shots over a coulple of month period... No time for that, but i guess when i die from an exploded pancreas i would have wished i had devoted a bit of time to the old vacanations...

Ahwell...