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Originally Posted by Selous
what about Aisa/Japan i think it is called encferlitus? to do with the water
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I think this is the disease you are looking for:
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Originally Posted by chrisDK
I also chose not to choose Japanese Encephalitis, but if you expect to spend more than a few weeks in rural areas of SE Asia, you should consider it. It is a very expensive one.. 1000DKK ~ 200USD for the shot..
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Here are some statistics from my travel medicine book:
Mosquitoes get the virus from pigs and carry them on to humans. About 1 in 2000 who get the virus, develop the actual disease. The lethality is 10-50% From 1978 to 1992 there has been 24 incidents of tourists from North America, Northern Australia, or Europe developing the disease. The chance for a tourist to get the disease is estimated between 1/200,000 and 1/1,000,000. For American troops in the Korea and Vietnam wars the risk was 1/10,000 per week.
Due to an increase of Japanese Encephalitis on the Indonesian island Bali, the vaccine is recommended to people travelling to Bali, people staying in SE Asia more than 3-4 weeks, and people staying of outside urban areas during the transmission period. The most important thing though, is to avoid mosquitoes altogether by use of repellent and mosquitoe nets.
These are the transmission periods for the different areas:
Cambodia: March through October
Northern China: March through September
Southern China: April through October
Indonesia: all year
Philippines: all year
Northern Thailand: March through September
Southern Thailand: all year:
Vietnam: March through October