Visitors to Vietnam are recommended to have vaccines for several diseases not common in Canada. Besides the usual Hepatitis A and B, we updated our Typhoid Fever, Polio, Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertussis. Everyone was thankful to not need a repeat of Yellow Fever (it really hurts). But the International Travel Clinic in Nova Scotia recommended that we wait until arriving in Vietnam to receive the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine. The vaccine available in Vietnam is newer than than the one in Nova Scotia and only requires one shot. So today we went to the local Clinic to receive this vaccine. Because of his age, Simon went to the Pediatric Clinic to receive his vaccine.
