Vaccinations for entering Japan

[John Dillinger]

Hey guys, having finally obtained the means, I'm planning on visiting Japan sometime next year or in 2021,and was wondering what vaccinations I'll need to get.

[Taro Toporific]

... was wondering what vaccinations I'll need to get.

Whether you just hanging out at home around the BBQ and drinking PBR pisswater or traveling in Japan, you should make sure your normal series of vaccinations is up-to-date. It's easy to fall behind the 10-year limit on tetanus shots ( diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine): Get a tetanus shot done for sure.

Also, recently measles has become active everywhere partly because the MMR vaccines' protection can "wear off" after 30 years (measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine).

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IF you're spending a lot of time hiking in the mountains or in the mosquitoes-infested rural areas in the dead of Japan's hellish summer, Japanese Encephalitis vaccine is recommended by the CDC. When I was going on the Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 Temples, the evil Hitosujishima-ka --- tiger mosquitoes were full of Japanese Encephalitis.

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[wuchan]

This is not reddit. Please direct all questions that you want to receive an answer that reinforces your fantasies to the domain of working holiday visa holders.

If you would like a real answer, please contact your government.

[Taro Toporific]

If you would like a real answer, please contact your government.

Yep, as I said before, "Japanese Encephalitis vaccine is recommended by the CDC. " The user John Dillinger lists his "Location: Right outside Birmingham Alabama."

https://jp.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/doctors/
Good information on vaccinations and other health precautions can be found via the CDC website.
cdc.gov/measles/travel-vaccine-assessment...

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Disclaimer: As a grad student my research was funded by the CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US, so I'm partial to their advice. The CDC maintains staff in more than 60 countries, including some from the U.S. but even more from the countries in which it operates.* Even if you are not an American, most likely your country uses the CDC's services.

[John Dillinger]

Thanks for the information Taro!

[jingai]

Excellent info Taro, I didn't know there was a Japanese Encephalitis vaccine. Is it readily available within Japan? What kind of clinic has these?

[Scipio]

Excellent info Taro, I didn't know there was a Japanese Encephalitis vaccine.

Ditto.... I'm always in the mountains in the summer months and never knew about this danger.

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese Encephalitis vaccine. Is it readily available within Japan? What kind of clinic has these?

The chance of getting Japanese Encephalitis Japan is low---Only 9 cases in 2018 but this year there were more than 20 thanks to global warming. But if you're traveling your chances of getting it in Indonesia and Asia is high. I went to Borneo and I was damn lucky that I already had the two shots (the main vaccine shot and then the booster 28 days later).

Japanese Encephalitis vaccine Is available at every doctor's office but you have to state your "reason" (Asia travel) to get it since part of its cost is subsidized. I only paid 4,00yen just like two flu shots, but the English-speaking, fancy-pants Tokyo Midtown Clinic charges 6,600yen. (without insurance the US cost is $450-1000!).

Method 1:
Generally during your annual ningen dokku check-up you can request it and the ningen dokku people will place an order for it, if you tell them a reason for getting the shot. You will be asked to come back in a day or two for the shot. (The vaccine is in never in stock---I think it has a short expiration period.)

Method 2:
Go to you local GP or Internal Medicine clinic and ask to update your shots (almost everybody out of school has an expired tetanus vaccination and needs a Tetanus Booster Shot). Then, specifically ask for a Japanese Encephalitis vaccine and explain you're going an Asian adventure, hiking in the mosquito-infested boonies or like in my case working on a Japanese mosquito ranch (family rice farm).

Method 3:
If you are going the big university hospital for some other problem, just tell your doctor that you also need Japanese Encephalitis vaccine and explain your "reason." Really big hospitals always have the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine in stock and plenty of people ask just before the start of mosquito season in the early spring.

[Taro Toporific]

I'm always in the mountains in the summer months and never knew about this danger.

Hi Scipio!
You're new here. Welcome to the Fuckqued!

Like I said before: The chance of getting Japanese Encephalitis Japan is low---Only 9 cases in 2018 but last year there were more than 20 cases thanks to global warming. But if you're traveling your chances of getting it in Indonesia and Asia is high. A year ago, I went to Borneo and I was damn lucky that I already had my shots.