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Quite a lot of interesting info is to be found on the forum my wife is on. The Jury service tale I posted and today a member posted that she and her husband are off to Cambodia for a holiday . Here is the list of vaccinations they need...twice.

Tetanus-typhoid-polio-diphtheria-mumps-measles-rubella- hepatitis A. In four weeks they need to have a second dose.

I wondered why anyone would want to go there and after reading "the bad"...as opposed to "the good" even before you read " the ugly", in this travelogue I wonder even more. Having to have all those vaccinations ...twice, would not only put me off in the first instance but sound alarm bells. In the link below the lady says there's next to no health service.

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My Cambodia Vacation - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

The full lowdown on my Cambodia vacation. I reveal to you the good, the bad and the UGLY of my 3 weeks of travel in Cambodia with my mum!
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We had significant vaccinations for India around 2011, including cholera and hepatitis A and B. Your list there includes the MMR set, which many people will have had and not need again.

TBH these countries are challenging but fantastic places to visit. I'd love to see Cambodia, Vietnam, return to India (Kolkata and Amritsar especially, plus Goa afterward for a more European-style rest).
 
Likewise I've had most of that lot and more over the years, apart from measles (which I had as a kid) and mumps jab. As a kid in Hong Kong, we had to to have the Tetanus-Typhoid-something else all in one jab before going there with annual boosters, and a cholera jab every 6 months. I wouldn't let it put me off visiting a fascinating country though.
 
ancient_mariner said:
We had significant vaccinations for India around 2011, including cholera and hepatitis A and B. Your list there includes the MMR set, which many people will have had and not need again.

TBH these countries are challenging but fantastic places to visit. I'd love to see Cambodia, Vietnam, return to India (Kolkata and Amritsar especially, plus Goa afterward for a more European-style rest).
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Yes. Take your point re MMR. My wife tells me that the couple are just over 71 and wouldn't have had the MMR single vaccination as it wasn't available until 1971 and many people of this age would likely have had those illnesses and developed immunity which is why they haven't felt the need to have the vaccination post 1971.

I'm a France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland etc.. man... Lol. Very conservative in my choice of destinations. My nephew lived and worked in India as a young man.....trainee doctor..and told me,with a grin, that with my demand for cleanliness and order I wouldn't like it. He also said I wouldn't like it re the disregard of traffic laws. Chaos rules,it seems. He also told me that he thought of me ,in relation to all of this,whilst he was there having a chuckle with his colleagues about his uncle John and how I would .."hate it". I know all this won't come as a surprise to you..Lol
 
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JohnC6 said:
Quite a lot of interesting info is to be found on the forum my wife is on. The Jury service tale I posted and today a member posted that she and her husband are off to Cambodia for a holiday . Here is the list of vaccinations they need...twice.

Tetanus-typhoid-polio-diphtheria-mumps-measles-rubella- hepatitis A. In four weeks they need to have a second dose.

I wondered why anyone would want to go there and after reading "the bad"...as opposed to "the good" even before you read " the ugly", in this travelogue I wonder even more. Having to have all those vaccinations ...twice, would not only put me off in the first instance but sound alarm bells. In the link below the lady says there's next to no health service.

www.templeseeker.com

My Cambodia Vacation - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

The full lowdown on my Cambodia vacation. I reveal to you the good, the bad and the UGLY of my 3 weeks of travel in Cambodia with my mum!
www.templeseeker.com www.templeseeker.com
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This AFAIK is the vaccination guide that is to be referred to as UK citizens.


Each advised and/or recommended vaccination is described in detail. Some vaccines work on the basis of, as and/or if required, an initial dose and then secondary booster......to ensure protection.

IMO anyone who ignores such vaccination advice and on the surmise they have travel insurance may(will?) find they are not covered for the likes of medical treatment or perhaps a medical repatriation!

PS depending on age and possibly medical history may not have to pay for the vaccinations.
 
The lady broke her ankle recently and informed her travel insurance company who surcharged her £175.

They are due to travel in February.
 
If you’re too old to have had the MMR then chances are you would’ve had most of measles, mumps etc when you were a child, so you’d have a natural resistance anyway. I certainly had the whole lot when I was a kid, including German Measles.

As for the “why go?” well Cambodia is a fascinating country and it’s worth visiting, even if just for Ankhor Watt, which is an incredible place. I did a combined Vietnam/Cambodia tour in 2010 and had a great experience.
 
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If you’re too old to have had the MMR then chances are you would’ve had most of measles, mumps etc when you were a child, so you’d have a natural resistance anyway. I certainly had the whole lot when I was a kid, including German Measles.

As for the “why go?” well Cambodia is a fascinating country and it’s worth visiting, even if just for Ankhor Watt, which is an incredible place. I did a combined Vietnam/Cambodia tour in 2010 and had a great experience.
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After reading that travelogue I posted I would not go there.

Re people too old for MMR,I did mention this ...Post 4.
 
JohnC6 said:
Yes. Take your point re MMR. My wife tells me that the couple are just over 71 and wouldn't have had the MMR single vaccination as it wasn't available until 1971 and many people of this age would likely have had those illnesses and developed immunity which is why they haven't felt the need to have the vaccination post 1971.

I'm a France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland etc.. man... Lol. Very conservative in my choice of destinations. My nephew lived and worked in India as a young man.....trainee doctor..and told me,with a grin, that with my demand for cleanliness and order I wouldn't like it. He also said I wouldn't like it re the disregard of traffic laws. Chaos rules,it seems. He also told me that he thought of me ,in relation to all of this,whilst he was there having a chuckle with his colleagues about his uncle John and how I would .."hate it". I know all this won't come as a surprise to you..Lol
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Re India although the traffic looks like total chaos it actually works, everyone works around each other and are doing roughly similar speeds
We felt safe traveling across India
They don’t get the dangerous idiots that we seem to get, the main roundabout at Chester on the Wrexham side has had an accident nearly every day recently, nothing particularly wrong with that road just seem to get idiots swerving across lanes and ignoring traffic lights
 
I've never had a vaccination to go anywhere. Googling tells me maybe I should have had some for Thailand, Singapore and Kazakhstan but certainly no one ever asked me for any proof of vaccination when entering those countries.

I do fancy Vietnam though, my sister and niece had a great holiday there years ago.
 
I want to visit Cambodia as Angkor Wat is on my to-do list....

I fell in love with Thailand on my first visit in 2005.... I met my future wife over there the following year and we've now been married 15 years....
 
In March 2018, I was sitting in the Iranian consulate in London waiting to pick up my visa, when I met an Irish guy there, who was also getting a visa, because he was planning a trip to various Asian countries in a landrover. He does a lot of these trips and they sound fascinating.

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LCPete said:
Re India although the traffic looks like total chaos it actually works, everyone works around each other and are doing roughly similar speeds
We felt safe traveling across India
They don’t get the dangerous idiots that we seem to get, the main roundabout at Chester on the Wrexham side has had an accident nearly every day recently, nothing particularly wrong with that road just seem to get idiots swerving across lanes and ignoring traffic lights
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Errr, they most certainly do.

www.statista.com

India: number of fatalities in road accidents| Statista

Road accidents have been a major cause for concern across the Indian subcontinent.
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These are the most recent figures I could find: 169,000 fatal road accidents in 2022 alone! That’s 3250 people killed on the roads in a week. The standard of driving in India is generally appalling in my experience : yes, the traffic keeps moving but only because there are literally no rules and everyone does what they feel like, like driving on the wrong side of the road or overtaking whenever and wherever they want. The roads are very poorly maintained outside of the cities and a lot of vehicles are completely unsafe. I’m a bit of a travel junkie and have been to quite a few third world countries, including India, and thought it was the worst one of the lot for road safety.
 
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JohnC6 said:
After reading that travelogue I posted I would not go there.

Re people too old for MMR,I did mention this ...Post 4.
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Sorry, yes you did say about the MMR already.

The travelogue is one person’s view and experience of the country, thousands of other tourists visit without incident and our party didn’t have any issues at all when we went. Some of the things the blogger complained about are really non-issues, like getting change from dollars in local currency… what did she expect, the Cambodians everywhere to be set up with lots of US small change? That’s a fairly normal situation to get small change in local currency, or even stamps or sweets instead of coins in some countries. I take her point about being potentially overcharged for her mother’s medication but then the US health system is a hundred times worse! They really know how to overcharge and God help you if you go the US and get ill without having health insurance. I’m also wondering what she expected generally from visiting a very poor country : she seems to have quite privileged-American expectations.

At the end of the day though I respect your decision to visit or not. It’s certainly not going to suit everyone. Personally I enjoyed visiting Cambodia but everybody’s different. ;)
 
boogie man said:
Errr, they most certainly do.

www.statista.com

India: number of fatalities in road accidents| Statista

Road accidents have been a major cause for concern across the Indian subcontinent.
www.statista.com www.statista.com
These are the most recent figures I could find: 169,000 fatal road accidents in 2022 alone! That’s 3250 people killed on the roads in a week. The standard of driving in India is generally appalling in my experience : yes, the traffic keeps moving but only because there are literally no rules and everyone does what they feel like, like driving on the wrong side of the road or overtaking whenever and wherever they want. The roads are very poorly maintained outside of the cities and a lot of vehicles are completely unsafe. I’m a bit of a travel junkie and have been to quite a few third world countries, including India, and thought it was the worst one of the lot for road safety.
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Yep you are right, we have traveled a bit as well to different countries and always felt safe and welcome wherever we went but as you say the figures do show that road safety isn’t good in India
 
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