Tanzania shots - international travel clinic?
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Anonymous
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We're going to Tanzania this summer, and I reviewed the CDC website for suggested vaccines and medication.
DD has a doctors apt this week, and I was going to review the CDC site there, and with my own PCP. Is it worth it to go to some place like the Hopkins International Travel clinic in addition? What do they offer that the standard CDC/PCP combo can't offer? |
Anonymous
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Infectious disease/Travel places have everything you need onsite. PCP usually won't since they don't administer them very often. Travel clinics will also have more up-to-date information than your PCP.
You will need yellow fever. |
Anonymous
Do you? I went to Tanzania a few years back and only needed the yellow fever vax because we flew into kenya and traveled by land to Tanzania. If we had flown straight to Tanzania, we wouldn't have needed it. |
Anonymous
| Go to passport health. Super easy. |
Anonymous
Yeah, CDC website and our travel agent both explicitly say you don't need yellow fever |
Anonymous
| Travel clinics are so expensive. I found better pricing at our GP and they have most of the shots stocked, or can get them, at somewhat better rates. |
Anonymous
That may be true. I traveled from Kenya to Tanzania. Perhaps I stand corre cted. |
Anonymous
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I went to Tanzania a few years ago. We went to a travel clinic in NoVA that I have visited before when traveling elsewhere. They have all of the info on what is required v recommended not only for countries but for areas within those countries, and they understand things like how the yellow fever vax plays out when you fly into Kenya and then fly v drive to Tanzania. I also like that they have records of what they gave me before.
Sounds like you are in MD, but in case anyone wants to know, I go to Capitol Travel Medicine in Virginia Square. |
Anonymous
No yellow fever if you are coming directly from US to Tanzania. |
Anonymous
| Just went to Tanzania. You don't need yellow fever. Only anti-malarial and typhoid. They are both taken orally by prescription so you can just ho to your regular GP. There is a shot for typhoid but the preferred method is an oral pill taken every other day for a week before you leave. The benefit of just using your GP is that you know insurance will cover it. My insurance didn't cover the vaccine itself, which was around $150 |
Anonymous
| Lots of bad info in this thread. You don’t need yellow fever or typhoid - or any shots - if you aren’t traveling from high risk counties and are going direct US to Tanzania. Take your malaria meds and you’ll be fine. |
Anonymous
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Get whatever you can at the PCP because the insurance or rate will be better.
There's a travel clinic in Farragut that's pretty straightforward and they know what you need or should get for each country. |