Travel and vaccine

I am planning to take a trip to Thailand later this year. Do I need any vaccine?

Absolutely not. The travel industry run by physicians has been scamming travelers with bogus vaccines and pills for decades. Unless you are going to drink water from the toilet or eat poop, you do not need anything. Even if you go the jungles in northern Thailand, you still do not need any prophylactic medications for prevention of malaria. The world has changed and improved a lot for tourists. Thailand is not a backward country with dreadful infections.

 

In the last decade, doctors have been offering all sorts of vaccines and medications for travelers but the majority of tourists do not need anything. Most of the hotels offer first-rate facilities that are clean. In fact, you are just as likely to get some crap infectious disorder by visiting LA or any other major city in the USA. 

The only advice I would give is wash your hands, do not eat food from the vendors and avoid sex without protection. The only vaccine that I recommend for adults is the hepatitis B vaccine.

Doctors who offer travel vaccines and malaria pills are nothing more than quacks and frauds.