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VACCINES
Required:
Malaria prophylaxis using Daraprim (see recommended medications)
Current tetanus vaccination
Current MMR
Strongly recommended:
Hepatitis A vaccination series
Oral typhoid vaccine (if currently available)
Hepatitis B vaccination series
Not necessary:
Cholera
Yellow fever
CDC site for health issues on travel in South East Asia: http://www.cdc.gov/travel/seasia.htm
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RECOMMENDED MEDICATIONS
Daraprim 25 mg once weekly, start 1 week before arrival in Kalimantan, take 8 weeks after leaving. (Don't forget, you must continue for 8 weeks after leaving to irradicate residual malaria in your blood.) Note: the CDC does not currently recommend daraprim as it is ineffective in most places. However, we have 40 years of experience in our setting, and have found that it is still quite effective.
Antidiarrheal medicine - loperamide 2 mg tabs, one every diarrheal episode up to 3 tabs in 24 hours. Available over the counter.
Ciprofloxacin 500 mg -32 doses. One tab 3 times daily for 3 days if you get "Montezuma's revenge".
Dramamine tabs: one as needed for nausea and vomiting.
Pain: Tylenol or Ibuprofen
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