Hey guys. Got a few questions about getting vaccinated for my RTW trip.
Both are bad diseases. Rabies is very unlikely. Any animal you are not 100% sure of, that act a bit funny, don't go near it.
Japanese Encephalitis is rare and comes from mosquitoes. Some repellant for your skin is handy and buy a can of bug spray for your room for last thing at night. Even if bitten by a carrier you only have a 1 in 250 chance of developing the disease at it's worst.
Buy travel insurance. A year's insurance isn't expensive and if any one of a number of worst scenarios happen, you won't have to remortgage your house for an air ambulance.
When abroad you can pop into a local doctor's place and inquire about these injections but they have a long settling in period / multiple injections so immunity might take some weeks afterwards.
As you note, rural areas are worst.
You do not need any of these vaccinations unless you are gonna be camping in the jungle in an area where travelling is uncommon like a true ray mears > Only 3 tourists have caught japenese e..... and none have died.As for rabies if you catch it your probably screwed .... but the chances of getting bitten by any animal is rare and the chance that that animal has rabies is sooooooooooo unlikely - You have a greater chance of falling off a cliff and dying & you can't get a vacc to prevent that lol.
Having said all this > I am also going travelling for a year in 2012 & will be having both of these as i am going off the radar into the wild so to speak.Although those prices seem very steep tbh - my Japenese e... vac is £150 which is about $270 & my rabies vacc is the same.If you are from the usa > i would recommend going to canada for vaccs if you live close to the border as those vacc prices are wayyyyy too much.
Hope this info helped.
In Fact > the rabies vacc in the uk is £22.50 for me > about $40 > so I suggest you punch the person who quoted you $480 > that is robbery.
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Jean
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