Do you think we need to take malaria med for a one week visit? Feb. 14th - 22nd? We will visit SD and POP.
No, no way.....Do you think we need to take malaria med for a one week visit? Feb. 14th - 22nd? We will visit SD and POP.
Nope. None. Nada. Drek.just had a friend told by a travel agent in canada not to visit dr due to high occurence of malaria!! that is the first i have heard of this..does anyone know if there has been an outbreak anywhere on the island
It makes me ashamed to be a Canadian.There have been some warnings on Canadian radio in the last few weeks and also a CTV news special warning of an increase of malaria in canadians that visited the Dom Rep in the last year.
Taking precautions can never hurt but telling people not to go to the D.R. is going overboard I would think.
As far I can see there are no new travel health advisory warnings on any of the websites that provide this info. I am sure that the news is just trying to make a big story out of something insignificant.
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Do you think we need to take malaria med for a one week visit? Feb. 14th - 22nd? We will visit SD and POP.
Health Canada has a Level 1 advisory apparently 1 person got malaria, of the over 3 million people who visit the DR.
It is a level 1 warning, recommendation only.
Best ask your doctor and do what he tells you.
In 20+ trips I have never taken any meds.
Well you are very Lucky Hlywud, on our third trip my daughter got dengue fever, i was afraid for her life...
I dont care what anyone says, twinrix vaccine i think is a must!
Travel insurance and taking normal precautions to protect one's health, are also essential.Perhaps the controller can edit that out as reading it now does not sit in the proper context.
thank you,
" I dont care what anyone says, twinrix vaccine i think is a must!
hank you"
The original post was about malaria, and then we move into hep a & B, and dengue fever.
Travel insurance and taking normal precautions to protect one's health is essential, I totally agree with Rocky. My comment was that in 20 + trips I have never taken any meds, lucky quite possibly very lucky but I do not intend to take any anti malaria drugs.
Dengue fever is another issue all together, I feel sorry that your daughter got it, it is a very dangerous fever for which there is apparently no medications to counteract the virus.
Dengue Fever Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID)
No dengue vaccine is available. Recently, however, attenuated candidate vaccine viruses have been developed. Efficacy trials in human volunteers have yet to be initiated. Research is also being conducted to develop second-generation recombinant vaccine viruses. Therefore, an effective dengue vaccine for public use will not be available for 5 to 10 years.