The execution begins: Shots!

According to the CDC if I want to live, I need to get the following shots:

  • Typhoid
  • Tetanus
  • Yellow Fever
  • Hep A
  • Hep B

Last week I started with Tetanus from my GP. However, she did not have any of the other meds in stock so I searched all over Houston to find a cheap place to get them. Don’t get them at a special travel clinic. They’re about twice as expensive as I was able to find them at Houston Adult Immunization Center in the Third Ward. Not only where the immunizations cheaper, but you didn’t have to pay a doctor for a consultation. All the travel doctors do is go to the CDC site and look up which shots you need and write you a prescription for anti-malaria medication. You can get one of those from your main doctor.

On Friday, I filled my arms with dead or weakened organisms. I have to come back in a month and get my 2nd round of Hep A/B (Twinrx). I’ll get the final round when I return from my trip so that I’ll have ten years of protection from Hep.