Vaccines

For some reason, not dying from a horrific exotic disease is really expensive. Really, really expensive. The value of my blood has definitely gone up majorly in the last couple of years with all the bonus antibodies it’s got pumped into it (and yet I still can’t shake this annoying cold...). If you’re going on a trip anywhere outside Europe, they definitely need to be in your budget pretty early on, because it could be a nasty surprise. Once you’ve got them, the majority last for 10 years or so, but keep track of them! And make sure you think about them in advance, most need a course that could take a couple of months.

Let me run my private collection by you:

Typhoid (1 x £40)

Hepatitis A (1 x £52)

Hepatitis B (3 x £43)

Hepatitis C (got at school)

TB (got at school)

Rabies (3 x £55 and it doesn’t even guarantee you won’t get rabies)

Japanese Encephalitis (2 x £89 – this one is recommended but not necessary, but given the choice of cake or debilitating brain damage/ death, I pick cake)

                Malaria tablets (varies depending on where you’re going and how much hallucination you’d like)

Wow. I had never actually seen all that money in one place before. I’d better have top notch blood.