Malaria and Mexico

Post reply

Note: Please do not post ads in the timeshare forums. If you want to add a timeshare posting, go here.

Original Message:

Re: Malaria and Mexico (by Cheryl S.):

nancyr79 wrote:
Does anyone know about the risk of getting malaria by traveling to Quintana Roo ( Yucatan Pennisula, Mexico)?

The travel books tell you to wear insect repellent with DEET, but I just found out the Red Cross won't let a US citizen give blood for a year after a trip there!

I am going, but I really want to know if it makes sense to get a prescription to take the preventative medication?

We leave in three weeks! Thanks a lot.

Hello, we just got back from D.R. in the Caribbean and we got many bites...the bugs seem to come out after the rain...although it was sunny 9 days of the 11 we were there the last two days I recieved over 70 bites. I would suggest wearing deet after a rain. I talked to a man who had taken the shots and been all over the world..he said the shots made him sick and he advised not getting them and not to worry. If you go to Africa it is a horse of a different color.