Feeling Like a Pin Cushion

Before long, we'll be wandering through a world full of particularly nasty diseases. I think schistosomiasis sounds particularly gross, but dengue fever wouldn't be much fun either. So, we have taken precautions - lots of precautions. Of course, that meant we had our arms stuck repeatedly with needles at the Travel Clinic. The nurse was counting on her fingers the number of shots, trying to figure out "if we have enough arms" for all of them. She managed.

It was quite the presentation, really, and took more than 2 hours. Now we have a thick stack of reading materials that highlight all the bugs, bacteria and viruses that we may come across during our travels. For some, they don't have vaccines available (at least in the U.S.) so we'll just take our chances. The nurse emphasized insect precautions (mosquito spray and netting) and avoiding fresh-water swimming (see schistosomiasis, above) pretty much everywhere we're going except Spain.

Today, Robin and I had typhoid for breakfast (actually, just a capsule containing an attenuated version of the bacteria). Yummy!