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Side note: I only got a vaccination in Germany 3 years ago because I was going to a high risk area for several months. "It is treatable, so we do not vaccinate
by jlg23 9y ago
Side note: I only got a vaccination in Germany 3 years ago because I was going to a high risk area for several months. "It is treatable, so we do not vaccinate for a mere 2 week holiday." There was an actual shortage of vaccine because it was simply almost never administered.
- djsumdog 9y agoBack in 1998 I got a Typhoid vaccination because I was going to Indian for a month. I got them as pills. I'm confused though. I thought Typhoid was viral, but it looks like it's bacterial. How do bacterial vaccines work? The wikipedia page for it is pretty sparse.
- maxerickson 9y agoThey work like viral vaccines, by exposing the immune system to the pathogen (or something similar enough to activate it against the pathogen). The oral vaccine is live typhus that has been manipulated to not be harmful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty21a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty21a
- open-source-ux 9y agoThere is some information on typhoid vaccination on this page from the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/typhoid-fever/vaccination/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/typhoid-fever/vaccination/