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Various diseases such as yellow fever, hepatitis, typhoid, polio etc. are prevalent in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America, Eastern Europe and South Asia. When deciding to go to any of those countries, it is a good idea to take travel vaccines to safeguard one from the diseases prevalent in those countries. For this, a traveller needs to contact travel health clinic, where he/she would get detailed information about the diseases spread in those countries, where they intend to visit. Along with that they need to know about the vaccines required for the trip. These vaccines, when injected in human body produce antibodies, which work to prevent the person from the various deadly infections. A travel doctor would even let you know about the list of vaccinations, which one needs to take prior to your trip. It is important to do so, because human immune system requires certain time for those vaccinations to get effective within the body. Thus, overall the doctor would give vaccinations keeping in mind the time constraints that include your trip date and gap between various doses. If not done so, various vaccines given together can cause minor reactions to the traveller. Importantly, live vaccines can be given on the same day while other vaccines can be separately given after a month or so before the trip. Mentioned below is the categorization of travel immunization according to the time constraints: - Routine immunizations: Generally, vaccines which are under routine immunizations like tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Chickenpox to name a few, are already given to the people during their childhood. But, still most of the vaccines are given to the travellers, which would be effective in boosting their immune system.
- Recommended immunizations: Under this category, general recommendation are made to the travellers for the vaccinations such as Cholera, influenza, Hepatitis A &B, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies, Tuberculosis, Typhoid and fever etc. All these are given to the person according to the type of the visit and the country, where the person is going.
- Required immunizations: This is the foremost important and mandatory category of immunizations under International Health Regulation, as a traveller cannot attain visa before taking all these vaccinations. To name a few are yellow fever, Cholera, and Meningococcal infection.
As getting only the vaccinations does not assure of being 100% secure despite all these vaccines, the doctors would even recommend you with the medications & travel safety tips to help you stay safe on your trip. Moreover, the doctor would provide you with travel certification, which would be essentially helpful for you during the custom check-up at airport. Want to know travel safety tips? Then log on to http://www.travelclinicnyc.com/.
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