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Hep B was a personal choice but a good idea for the adventure travellers. Blood transfusions, tatoos and sex with strangers all carry a major risk.
But the tattoos are the best part! Honestly some of these doctors are a bit naive, how many travellers are going to get a tattoo at a parlour with dirty needles?

Do you have time to get the Rabies shots? I thought they were a 6 week deal? Sounds like a fairly good call in all honesty. I was being a cheap arse.

For £90 in South America they'd give you the shot AND a couple of strangers to have sex with...
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But the tattoos are the best part! Honestly some of these doctors are a bit naive, how many travellers are going to get a tattoo at a parlour with dirty needles?

Do you have time to get the Rabies shots? I thought they were a 6 week deal? Sounds like a fairly good call in all honesty. I was being a cheap arse.

For £90 in South America they'd give you the shot AND a couple of strangers to have sex with...
With rabies they can do a fast track. I just about have enough time. I get the last shot a day before a fly out .

I know i could of got them cheaper over there but i cant be arsed with the hassel.

I know its expensive and I know im probably over preparing, but I've waited so long to do this trip, ill be very anoyed if i end up critically sick or dead !
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Thumbs down Paraguay (and Brazil) latest news item about Yellow F
BBC NEWS | Americas | Fever vaccines sent to Paraguay
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Brazil and Yellow fever
Brazil does want you to have yellow fever (the shot !!). We got ours free in Puerto Maldonado, Peru (July 07) for free before crossing over, but when we got to Brasileia they said that our little yellow card was no good, but that they would exchange if free for an international one right there at their posta as if we had gotten it there!

So much formality to be so INFORMAL !!! :confused1:

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Good choice on getting the rabies shot.

I don't have one, haven't NEEDED it but there are stray animals all over and dogs do like to chase motorcycles. In my part of Canada they are $600. If I remember I asked about it in Colombia and it was also expensive. I am in a different country and should ask again...

Thanks for the reminder.

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A friend of mine was bitten by a dog in Costa Rica a year ago, had to do the whole anti-rabies protocol afterward, and didn't die or anything.

I' just rode from Mexico to Panama. I'm headed to South America in three weeks. I wear tall boots and keep my hand on the throttle. I don't have the rabies shots but I carry the yellow fever card in my passport. I did the hepatitis vaccines, and plan on getting a tatoo and ear ring if I make it to Ushuaia.
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Today the travel nurse at my clinic told me to get the rabies vaccine. So I'll get it. I don't have time to get all three shots here in the US, so I'll have to get shot number 3 in Panama. I'm going to see if she'll give me a vial of vaccine and let me self-administer it. My insurance (an HMO) pays for each shot. I only have to pay $15 if I see a doctor. Each medicine (cypro, zythro, doxycycline, vicoden) costs me $15.
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