Vaccins au Vietnam
by Rene35
This discussion is in French, the community’s main language.
Original post
bonsoir
nous envisageons un circuit au nord vietnam et doit-on se faire vacciner et quels vaccins ?
Bonjour Jean Marie,
Pas de vaccinations obligatoires au Vietnam, mais, , être à jour des vôtres , celui de la Typhoïde est aussi fortement recommandé tout comme ceux des hépatites. Prévoir également une bonne protection anti moustique de type tropique... Pas de paludisme sur presque tout le territoire seuls sont concernés certaines zones dont les hauts plateaux du centre, cependant la Dengue sévit sur la totalité du pays d'où une protection efficace. Consultez votre médecin pour plus d'informations ou regardez les préconisations des centres spécialisés
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Pour bien aimer un pays il faut le manger, le boire et l’entendre chanter. (Michel Déon)
Je conseille aussi un masque anti pollution comme a Hanoi est des villes les plus polluées au monde.
J espere egalement que manger des aliments issus de l agriculture intensive ne vous rebute pas. Ah oui apportez aussi des boules Quies. Le bruit est omniprésent partout.
J espere egalement que manger des aliments issus de l agriculture intensive ne vous rebute pas. Ah oui apportez aussi des boules Quies. Le bruit est omniprésent partout.
Et encore, je ne m etends pas.
Ayez une bonne assurance, 30 000 morts par an sur les routes.
Ayez une bonne assurance, 30 000 morts par an sur les routes.
Ca dépend comment vous visitez les pays. Si c'est en tour bien organisé loin de la réalité du pays, oui ca passe.
Après ca dépend aussi des yeux que l'on a.
Après ca dépend aussi des yeux que l'on a.
Faites une batterie de vaccins si vous vous rendez a Halong
Le massacre de Halong s invite au jt de France2
www.google.fr/amp/s/mobile.francetvinfo.fr/decouverte/vacances/voyage-la-baie-d-along-un-paradis-menace_2906811.amp
Le massacre de Halong s invite au jt de France2
www.google.fr/amp/s/mobile.francetvinfo.fr/decouverte/vacances/voyage-la-baie-d-along-un-paradis-menace_2906811.amp
Votre avis est bien négatif, fort peu argumenté et tout à fait inexact s'agissant notamment des vaccins à faire.
Oui, il y a des touristes au Vietnam mais je vous demande : combien de millions de touristes viennent à Paris par année à votre avis ? Est-ce que cela rend Paris infréquentable ? Faut-il également se faire vacciner ?
Oui, il y a des touristes au Vietnam mais je vous demande : combien de millions de touristes viennent à Paris par année à votre avis ? Est-ce que cela rend Paris infréquentable ? Faut-il également se faire vacciner ?
Merci!
Pour bien aimer un pays il faut le manger, le boire et l’entendre chanter. (Michel Déon)
On ne massacre pas Paris pour accueillir des touristes comme le Vietnam le fait.
Faites une batterie de vaccins si vous vous rendez a Halong
Ayez une bonne assurance, 30 000 morts par an sur les routes.
Je conseille aussi un masque anti pollution comme a Hanoi est des villes les plus polluées au monde.
J espere egalement que manger des aliments issus de l agriculture intensive ne vous rebute pas. Ah oui apportez aussi des boules Quies. Le bruit est omniprésent partout.
On ne massacre pas Paris pour accueillir des touristes comme le Vietnam le fait....
Et vous, vous massacrez le Vietnam, pas moins de 5 interventions sur les 13 messages de cette discussion et tous en dénigrement du Vietnam qui est pourtant votre pays! Quel compte avez vous donc à régler avec lui ?
Vous nous fatiguez et de plus, trop critique et sans justifications valables vous n'êtes plus crédible!
Si aux cours de vos interventions vous avez pu suggérer à 2 reprises, seulement... une destination intéressante dans votre pays, vous avez par ailleurs passé votre temps à démontrer que le Vietnam est à éviter que les vietnamiens ne sont pas à fréquenter, qu'il vaut mieux rester en France....soit! Mais vos arguments ne sont pas recevables surtout quand vous comparez Paris, la France à Hanoï, au Vietnam. Votre pays est un pays émergeant qui sort tout juste de plus de 70 ans de guerre, d'une longue colonisation, vos parents et vous même peut être avez connu çà? Pour mémoire , le Đổi mới date de 1986, c'est à peine hier, Laissez, le temps au Vietnam d'être ce qu'il ambitionne avant de faire votre travail de sape.
Depuis que je visite le Vietnam je n'y ai rencontré que des gens qui aiment leur pays qui sont fiers de leurs cultures et de leurs traditions et qui, s'ils ne sont pas toujours en accord avec la gouvernance n'en discriminent pas pour autant leur terre natale...
J'ai cru à un moment que auriez tant à dire, à expliquer, au futur voyageur que j'ai tenté le dialogue avec vous mais là, la désillusion est grande!
Je présente mes excuses aux autres intervenants de cette discussion, à son initiateur, qu'ils veuillent bien pardonner mon intervention qui perturbe sans doute le cours de leurs échanges.
On ne massacre pas Paris pour accueillir des touristes comme le Vietnam le fait....
Et vous, vous massacrez le Vietnam, pas moins de 5 interventions sur les 13 messages de cette discussion et tous en dénigrement du Vietnam qui est pourtant votre pays! Quel compte avez vous donc à régler avec lui ?
Vous nous fatiguez et de plus, trop critique et sans justifications valables vous n'êtes plus crédible!
Si aux cours de vos interventions vous avez pu suggérer à 2 reprises, seulement... une destination intéressante dans votre pays, vous avez par ailleurs passé votre temps à démontrer que le Vietnam est à éviter que les vietnamiens ne sont pas à fréquenter, qu'il vaut mieux rester en France....soit! Mais vos arguments ne sont pas recevables surtout quand vous comparez Paris, la France à Hanoï, au Vietnam. Votre pays est un pays émergeant qui sort tout juste de plus de 70 ans de guerre, d'une longue colonisation, vos parents et vous même peut être avez connu çà? Pour mémoire , le Đổi mới date de 1986, c'est à peine hier, Laissez, le temps au Vietnam d'être ce qu'il ambitionne avant de faire votre travail de sape.
Depuis que je visite le Vietnam je n'y ai rencontré que des gens qui aiment leur pays qui sont fiers de leurs cultures et de leurs traditions et qui, s'ils ne sont pas toujours en accord avec la gouvernance n'en discriminent pas pour autant leur terre natale...
J'ai cru à un moment que auriez tant à dire, à expliquer, au futur voyageur que j'ai tenté le dialogue avec vous mais là, la désillusion est grande!
Je présente mes excuses aux autres intervenants de cette discussion, à son initiateur, qu'ils veuillent bien pardonner mon intervention qui perturbe sans doute le cours de leurs échanges.
Pour bien aimer un pays il faut le manger, le boire et l’entendre chanter. (Michel Déon)
Je ne massacre pas le Vietnam, je dis juste quelques vérités. Que cela vous plaise ou non.
Pollution de l'air, pollution sonore, pollution des sols, des mers, rivières, culture ultra intensive, destruction du patrimoine, bétonnage, 30 000 morts par an sur les routes et j en passe. Ce n'est que la triste réalité chère amie.
Pollution de l'air, pollution sonore, pollution des sols, des mers, rivières, culture ultra intensive, destruction du patrimoine, bétonnage, 30 000 morts par an sur les routes et j en passe. Ce n'est que la triste réalité chère amie.
Mais je n y vais olus cher ami. Du coup je redecouvre la France et ses belles campagnes. Je profite d un air pur, du seul bruit des cigalles, du magnifique patrimoine et d une cuisine exquise issue d une agriculture raisonnee et raisonnable. J ai plaisir à sillonner les merveilleuses petites routes sans souffrir des assasins de la route comme au Vietnam et de leur klaxon incessant.
Ben , c'est bien vrai çà, pourquoi aller au Vietnam?
Autant rester en Ardèche où tout est soft surtout
la qualité de l'eau
http://www.ardeche.gouv.fr/suspicion-de-contamination-de-l-eau-du-camping-a8227.html
et de l'air
"Le polluant caractéristique de ce territoire est l'ozone. Les températures estivales élevées dans le sud de la région sont favorables à la formation de ce polluant, en particulier en milieu rural. Les deux départements de la Drôme et de l’Ardèche sont par conséquent très affectés par cette pollution, qui les touche presque en totalité durant l’été"....
Pour bien aimer un pays il faut le manger, le boire et l’entendre chanter. (Michel Déon)
Bonjour
Je pense que vous partez en circuit organisé.
Je suppose que vous n'avez pas de problème de santé particulier.
Pas de vaccination spécifique, vérifiez avec votre médecin traitant l'état de vos vaccinations standard (tétanos en particulier). Discutez du problème de l'hépatite A (mais une sérologie préalable à votre âge est à envisager). Je déconseille le vaccin typhoïde, d'efficacité incertaine et qui fait oublier les précautions alimentaires de base que votre médecin traitant vous expliquera.
Par ailleurs, le Vietnam où je vais régulièrement et où j'ai travaillé est un pays contrasté. Certes, ce n'est pas le monde des bisounours. Je fuis dès que possible Saigon, qui devient de plus en plus une ville de business asiatique. Il ne me viendrait jamais à l'idée d'aller dans la baie d'Halong (trop tard...) ou à Nha Trang (je ne parle pas russe), mais le coin du delta du Mékong que je fréquente reste un lieu où je me sens bien . Et les gens sont formidables. Pourtant, ils en ont bavé...
J'étais á Hanoi voici 2 ans sans vaccins spécifiques, je me suis retrouvée á l'hôpital Français aprés un évanouissement; recherche dingue, malaria ect... aucune maladie infectieuse trouvée, mais prise en charge et soins parfaits. Mieux vaut tomber malade au Vietnam qu'au Laos ...
Au sujet de la Baie d'Halong á voir sans hésiter , une fois embarqué on se retrouve vite loin de tout et c d'une beauté sans pareil ! plus une balade en kayak au milieu de toutes ces roches couvertes de forêt tropicales calme absolu , un de mes pls beaux souvenirs de voyages .
Soual
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I’ve started looking into getting dental implants, possibly in Costa Rica or Mexico.
Do you have any clinics to recommend or ones I should avoid?
For the next steps, I need to choose between Cuba Medika or Medigo—these are agencies that help with medical procedures. Do you have any info on either of them?
Thanks so much for your help!
Thanks so much for your help!
Hi everyone, a question for those who’ve been lucky enough to visit Raja Ampat—should you consider preventive malaria treatment given its proximity to Papua? And how was the food hygiene situation?
Thanks for your feedback! !
Hi there.
I’d like to know if all medications need to be declared at Uzbek customs.
E.g., antidepressants?
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For several years now, increased aggression has been observed in Cape fur seals.
At least 70 unprovoked attacks on humans.
It was recently confirmed that this is due to rabies.
The suspected origin is contamination in Namibia by jackals.
The contagion seems to be spreading.
Preventive vaccination (of the animals) is being considered.
Just a reminder:
Rabies affects all mammals.
Once symptoms appear—sometimes weeks or even months later—death is inevitable.
It’s the bite that transmits the disease.
There are so-called "furious" forms with aggression, but also forms without aggression.
In case of a bite, in addition to standard wound care, tetanus prevention… rabies prevention is essential.
Stay careful out there…
Seeing seals from a boat along the coast isn’t rare in these parts…