More vaccinations this morning... We both got polio boosters, which should fix us for life. I also got my first Hepatitus B, and will get another just before we leave and another 6-12 months down the line. (Marjorie's already finished with her Hep B.) We also got prescriptions for three different malaria preventatives which we can choose from. Now we must choose which of them we want based on the trade-off among side-effects, time of coverage, and price. The good ones are $5-$10 a pill, to be taken daily.

When people from southeast Asia come to visit the US, do they have to get vaccinated for things that they have no natural resistance for? Like, yuppie flu, carpal tunnel syndrome, or the summertime blues?