So I jumped right in there without much consideration for the fact that the country I'm traveling to is in AFRICA.
I've been surprised by the number of people whose jaws go a little slack when I tell them where I'm going.
'Wow, that's the road less travelled'.
It hadn't occurred to me.
Just a place in the world where people live who make great music and move like they're connected to a higher groove than where I come from.
I'm not big on vaccinations, but as I grow older I seem to be a much more cautious person than the impression I like to give myself. The doctor did a very good line in worst case scenarios.
I usually use antimalarial homeopathics in Asia and haven't had a problem. On speaking to the travel doctor however, she suggested that the malaria is much more widespread in Africa and they have the cerebral kind .. which can be fatal within three days. A friend travelled to Senegal a few years back and she used Doxyclycline... it made her feel rotten and her hair started to fall out.. and she got malaria.. but her partner didn't take anything, got cerebral malaria and nearly died.
I did a lot of surfing on the net trying to work out what to do about mosquitoes.
Lariam sometimes gives people bad dreams, depression and psychosis.
Malarone was going to cost about $500 for the month.
So I've decided to go with Doxycycline... seems like the best of a whole bunch of not very pleasant choices...
You have to get a Yellow Fever vaccination to get a visa.
I also got a Hepatitus A booster, Typhoid and a Meningococcal something or other vaccination... just to be on the safe side.
Financial outlay.. $440.00
