Vaccinations
Vaccinations
we are travelling to Tobago in March as a family, children aged 1/5/10 & 13. Please advise if any vaccinations are required.
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Hi Ann
We get Hepatitus A ... Typhoid ... but your youngest may not be able to have these.
Consult your GP/Practice Nurse ...
You will get a booklet certifying the vaccinations for each child just in case someone authoritative wants to check.
Regards
We get Hepatitus A ... Typhoid ... but your youngest may not be able to have these.
Consult your GP/Practice Nurse ...
You will get a booklet certifying the vaccinations for each child just in case someone authoritative wants to check.
Regards
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Hi,i'm off to Tobago in May for my nephews wedding,and keep reading different things about NO JABS, needed and SOME JABS needed,i'm confused here,can someone please HELP!
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My opinion is, never mind where you travel, everyone should have some vaccinations as a "minimum standard" for their own safety, as Jane say, Polio, Tetanus, and Hepatitis A.
Small scratches can very easy get infected if you, for example, step on some dirthy thing, normally there´s not a big risk in Tobago, but if you have bad luck...
Typhoid, Malaria, Yellow fever, that´s something you only need when going into other specific areas in Asia, Africa and South America. But that also depend on the situation, that change sometimes.
Small scratches can very easy get infected if you, for example, step on some dirthy thing, normally there´s not a big risk in Tobago, but if you have bad luck...
Typhoid, Malaria, Yellow fever, that´s something you only need when going into other specific areas in Asia, Africa and South America. But that also depend on the situation, that change sometimes.
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There´s sometimes outbreaks of Yellow Fever by the monkeys, but I havn´t beeen reading that peoples has been sick. You also have Malaria sometims, but both of them are mostly in the southern part of Trinidad, not Tobago.
Many years ago, Yellow Fever was recommended for visitors. I´d get the the injection, but NO ONE at the Immigration was asking for my International Certificate of Vaccination!
Yellow Fever is, or at least was, different from other vaccinations. I had to go to a hospital to get it, the doctor told me it´s life vaccin. Normally centras for vaccinations wasn´t allowed to give such a vaccination.
Many years ago, Yellow Fever was recommended for visitors. I´d get the the injection, but NO ONE at the Immigration was asking for my International Certificate of Vaccination!
Yellow Fever is, or at least was, different from other vaccinations. I had to go to a hospital to get it, the doctor told me it´s life vaccin. Normally centras for vaccinations wasn´t allowed to give such a vaccination.
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Wendy,
I found this advice via the Dept. of Health Website.
Jill
I found this advice via the Dept. of Health Website.
Hope this helps.Trinidad and Tobago
Yellow fever vaccination certificate required from travellers over one year of age coming from infected areas. Yellow fever vaccination usually advised for visits to rural or forested areas of Trinidad (not for solely city or beach holidays or for Tobago).
Jill
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Also this may help :-
JillCheck routine immunisations including tetanus.
Immunisation against hepatitis A usually advised (less important for short stays in tourist hotels). Immunsation against typhoid occasionally advised for longer stays where food and water hygiene standards may be in doubt.
For longer stays consider immunisation against hepatitis B and diphtheria and check BCG status.
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tetanus
Another good reason that we do not fork out tetanus prophylaxis shots is that You really do not need it until You get a dirty cut, eg not from Your own razor. In any case, You may always have a refill, if You for example get bitten by something or someone...
I realise the last post has been a while and I will also see my doctor for specific information, but what I'm interested in is what sort of vaccination / health issues to consider when moving to T&T as I am going to.
Since most of the information I've so far come across seems to be focused on shorter periods of time I wonder what happens to it's validity when applied to actually going to live there once used to a European setting (grew up here in the Netherlands). I read on an American government website for example that yellow fever is not to be underestimated in T&T (meaning both islands) and that of 7 known cases over the last so many years that were contracted by US citizens visiting the Carribean (not only T&T) all seven victims died.
I'd greatly appreciate any input.
Since most of the information I've so far come across seems to be focused on shorter periods of time I wonder what happens to it's validity when applied to actually going to live there once used to a European setting (grew up here in the Netherlands). I read on an American government website for example that yellow fever is not to be underestimated in T&T (meaning both islands) and that of 7 known cases over the last so many years that were contracted by US citizens visiting the Carribean (not only T&T) all seven victims died.
I'd greatly appreciate any input.
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Hi Martijn
I´ve been visiting Trinidad & Tobago since 1989, and only once I´d see a warning about yellow fever.
Since that I´m told that outbreak of yellow fever sometimes happend in the south of Trinidad, mostly from and between the monkey.
Maybe the peoples from US was working into the oil/gas industry in the south?
It´s possible to get injections for yellow fever, but if you aren´t around these areas, deep into the rain forrest...? Such a vaccination only work for some time too I believe.
Myself should first of all check my vaccinations for polio, tethanius and other types of "normally" vaccinations. After that I would go after the doctors recommendations accordning to the area. And than I don´t only mean T&T. It´s a tropical area, if you live there you might go across to South America too?
Ronald
I´ve been visiting Trinidad & Tobago since 1989, and only once I´d see a warning about yellow fever.
Since that I´m told that outbreak of yellow fever sometimes happend in the south of Trinidad, mostly from and between the monkey.
Maybe the peoples from US was working into the oil/gas industry in the south?
It´s possible to get injections for yellow fever, but if you aren´t around these areas, deep into the rain forrest...? Such a vaccination only work for some time too I believe.
Myself should first of all check my vaccinations for polio, tethanius and other types of "normally" vaccinations. After that I would go after the doctors recommendations accordning to the area. And than I don´t only mean T&T. It´s a tropical area, if you live there you might go across to South America too?
Ronald
Right that last part was something I had been thinking about also, since I might not always stay in one place there may be more things to consider when it comes to health and safety.Ronald wrote:
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And than I don´t only mean T&T. It´s a tropical area, if you live there you might go across to South America too?
Ronald
Mostly I would be staying in either Trinidad or Tobago, but because of job opportunities it might well be Trinidad and I can't of course guarantee I'll never be in the south.
Perhaps the CDC is just trying to be on the safe side with what they're saying, it was their website I was referring to.
About general health issues when related to the Caribbean it was:
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/caribean.htm#vaccines
About Yellow fever it was:
http://www2.ncid.cdc.gov/travel/yb/util ... wfever.htm
But then again I may have misread it slightly also.