Planning to travel overseas means checking the plans and getting proper vaccinations. However, many travelers ask the experts in travel clinics if the vaccinations are mandatory. The immigration department of the countries has made it necessary for the travelers to have proper documentation. It is the travelclinics that give the documentation and vaccines to the travelers.
What are vaccinations?
According the the World Health Organization (WHO), a vaccine is “a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.”
“A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and “remember” it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.”
Recommended Travel Vaccines
Generally the travel vaccines depend upon the place where the individual is travelling. The common travel vaccines that come to the mind when anyone thinks of travel vaccines are:
- Typhoid fever
- Malaria (medication, not vaccine)
- Rabies
- Cholera
- Meningitis
- Japanese Encephalitis
Many of these vaccines are not on the common vaccine list and only applied when the travellers is going to specific country or region.
Required travel vaccinations
One of the leading examples of the vaccinations for a certain place is yellow fever. As a required vaccine for travelling, anyone going to South America or Africa would require yellow fever shots. The required travel vaccinations have a show of proof which the traveler shows to the authorities before or when entering the country. These vaccinations are needed for legal reasons and for the peace of mind.
Why opt for yellow fever shots?
The Yellow fever is a virus that spreads from mosquito bites. While it is not always fatal, there is no known cure or treatment for it. About 15 percent people who develop yellow fever end up dying.
There are numerous countries that need to the show of proof for the yellow fever for entry om the country and even for reentry in your own country if the person visited a yellow fever-endemic country.
- Vaccination type: Single injection
- Vaccine protection : Lifetime
- Cost: $150 – $300
- Recommended for: certain parts of Africa and South America
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