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Vietnam Health Tips

Vietnam Health Tips. Mercy Immersion Project 2013. Vietnam Health Tips. Information provided tonight is the opinion of the speaker, Dr Dan Manahan This information is general in nature

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Vietnam Health Tips

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  1. Vietnam Health Tips Mercy Immersion Project 2013

  2. Vietnam Health Tips • Information provided tonight is the opinion of the speaker, Dr Dan Manahan • This information is general in nature • You are strongly advised to see your doctor or a travel health professional ASAP to prepare for a visit to Vietnam • This session does not replace a doctor visit • Vaccination requires time - see your doctor soon.

  3. Vietnam Health Tips • General Health • Health in Vietnam • Vaccination • Mosquito borne illness • Water borne illness • When will I get sick • Questions

  4. General Health • Personal Health • Own profile, diseases, medications, disabilities • Letter from your doctor • Common Sense • Injury • Exposures • Unknowns, Accidents, • Violence, Nature

  5. Health in Vietnam • Tropical Country • Typhoons • Developing Country • Cultural aspects • Endemic Diseases – Malaria, Dengue, JE, TB, HIV, Typhoid, Parasitoses, Influenza

  6. Vaccination • Usual Vaccines • Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Hep B, MMR, Flu • Typhoid • Hep A and Hep B combo • Cholera • JE -Japanese Encephalitis • Rabies (only if bitten)

  7. Hepatitis A and B (adult >15 and junior) • Twinrix - $76 each • http://www.gsk.com.au/resources.ashx/vaccineproductschilddatadownloads/418/File/56844E2761A78B1695230C64888A93C3/Twinrix_(Preservative_Free)_CMI_v3.0_clean_pdf_version.pdf • Diptheria and Tetanus • Adult (>5) Diptheria and Tetanus - ADT • ADT - $19 each • http://www.csl.com.au/docs/805/914/ADT%20Booster%20CMI%20-%20Jan2010.pdf • Diptheris Tetanus Pertussis (>10) • Boostrix - $36 each • http://www.gsk.com.au/resources.ashx/vaccineproductschilddatadownloads/437/File/4A88FA2C6D2ABA662347F265DC819523/Boostrix_(Preservative_free)_CMI_Version_2.0.pdf • Typhoid, Salmonella typhiinj(>2) • Typhim - $49 each • http://products.sanofi.com.au/vaccines/TYPHIM_VI_NZ_PI.pdf • Typhoid, Salmonella typhi oral(>6) • Vivotif - $40 • http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM142807.pdf • Japanese Encephalitis (>18) • Jespect - $156 each • http://www.csl.com.au/docs/87/500/Jespect%20CMI-%20Jun11.pdf • Cholera (>2) • Dukoral Twin pack - $86 each • http://www.biocsl.com.au/docs/338/734/Dukoral%20Oral%20inactivated%20cholera%20vaccine%20PI-Mar%202012.pdf • Measles Mumps Rubella • Priorix MMR • http://www.gsk.com.au/resources.ashx/vaccineproductschilddatadownloads/464/File/3B2B708EBD666A9D201B521C23CA5A41/Priorix_AU_CMI_004_clean_pdf.pdf • Chicken Pox • Varilix (>9/12) • http://www.gsk.com.au/resources.ashx/vaccineproductschilddatadownloads/397/File/6C5DB43FF86A365C3E2E03D0F0F6502E/Varilrix_CMI_v5.0.pdf • Influenza (>5) • Fluvax • http://www.csl.com.au/docs/795/829/Fluvax%20SH2013%20CMI%20-%20Nov2012,0.pdf

  8. Mosquito Borne Illness • Malaria • Japanese Encephalitis • Dengue

  9. Water Borne Illness • Typhoid • Amoebiais • Worms • Cystercercosis • Travellers Diarrhoea • Plenty others

  10. When will I get sick • Travellers Diarrhoea – quick • Malaria, Dengue – when home • If you develop a fever and any type of illness over the following 2 months ensure you see your doctor and advise them you were in Vietnam and when and where

  11. Questions

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