marylou22 said:
so would your advice be to take the meds? even my doc told me that the risk wasn't that high and it was up to me. he got that info from the college of surgeons in ireland where all docs apparently check into before prescribing vaccines for foreign travel.. i'm so confused now. bloody mosquitos
Two chloroquine (250 mg) a week for the week before you go, each week you are there and 4 weeks after leaving is a pretty simple and cheap regimen.
I am back and forth so often to Nicaragua lately that I haven't been off it since November.
If you go to where there is an alleged enemic malaria situation, and since it is cheap and has pretty well no side effects why wouldn't you?
NB: Chloroquine at this time is ALL you need, no need to pay for malarone , lariam, etc., or take doxycycline dailiy for the same time period at a higher cost. Keep it simple.
AND - limit expousre to mosquitoes with clothing and DEET since you still have some dengue risk in the DR, probably more than you do for malaria.