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Well, my little 11 month old peanut here came down with German measles yesterday, exactly 10 days before she was scheduled to get her 1st vaccination for them. They don't give it until they hit 1 year old.

Not too serious, known as the 3 day measles. Small fever and rash and that's about it.

My caution is that if you have kids here, make sure they get their vacinations when scheduled. If bringing kids here on holiday, be sure their vaccinations are up to date.

This ain't the west, most people are not vaccinated for anything and this is how bad stuff spreads. Pete
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Good point Pete, moving over there in four weeks, bringing our five yr old grand daughter with us, but thankfully she is vaccinated up to the hilt.
Some peole do come on holiday with the attitude, " Oh it's only for a fortnight we will be okay". They dont realise just how dangerous it can be.
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prcscct wrote:This ain't the west, most people are not vaccinated for anything and this is how bad stuff spreads.
Sound advice in your post Pete but not sure I would agree with the last comment. From what I have seen in my wife's province there is a really good free vaccination programme for children in Thailand. The people will accept any and all vaccinations without question (a bit like the attitudes to pesticides etc.), unlike here in the UK where people are questionning the safety of certain vaccinations (e.g. the triple measles-mumps-rubella shot) or even all vaccinations if they happen to believe in homeopathy and withdrawing their kids from the programme.

Maybe what I have seen is a locally implemented, rather than national thing but I was impressed and I know that my two step-sons were fully up to date with their jabs before they came to the UK. To give you an idea of how thorough the vaccination programme is, there is even a free anti-rabies jab administered annually to all the local cats and dogs!
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You're probably correct Jaime. We asked the pediatrician over here about that and she said it is not advertised much, the local folks have to go to a hospital and ask for it. The hospitals being the Thai public hospitals that participate in the 40 baht health care scheme. In the rural areas up north, I have read they have traveling med vans or similar.

At the same time, the doc reiterated that the Pattaya area has about 18,000 workers who service the tourist industry in the hotels etc. Of that, about 300 new people arrive each day from nakon nowhere to replace the 300 going back with the money they've earned/saved. She said this pattern brings a lot of communicable diseases into tourist areas. She also mentioned that people around the age of 25 and over did not have the benefit of readily available immunizations.

We bought a package for about 7,500 baht that gives all immunizations up to about the age of 6. I think we saved about 30% over paying on a visit by visit basis. Pete
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prcscct wrote:In the rural areas up north, I have read they have traveling med vans or similar.
That ties in with what I know about it up North Pete. I think the idea is that nobody gets left out. It's the same for the people and the cats and dogs!
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