recommended vaccines
- Thread starter Mredward
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Fear not young fellow.......I have plunged my bare hands into the entrails of hundreds of animals all over the globe with out the benefit of any vaccinations of any kind except Yellow Fever for the Congo, and I doubt it protected me from anything I may have touched or eaten regardless. I have never been sick a day from handling blood, entrails or meat of game animals. The same cannot be said of the human population of most of these places..........I have also many times nicked, cut and scratched myself while doing these chores and mixed blood with many critters with no ill effects what so ever. This includes many, many animal families........paws, claws, split hooved, solid hooved, you name it and I have probably had it's blood on my hands (except penguins) and it's ticks on my hide and like I said no ill effects at all...........unless you count my slight personality disorder.
justinb1981
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- Hamilton, Ontario
Zombies eat brains. Pretty sure they'd have no intrest in those anti vax people
Did I hear Goat Hunt?
Tetanus shot is worth having as a general rule. You can get the immunization within a week or two of exposure as I recall, and still get almost the same protection.
Tick repellent is more relevant. There's no immunization for Lyme, and the treatment and condition are nasty.
Tick repellent is more relevant. There's no immunization for Lyme, and the treatment and condition are nasty.
Goat hunts are a breeze compared to hunting elephants.......well OK not a breeze, but just about as tough with different hardships.......without some sort of slight personality disorder one would never endeavor to collect either of these two..........
you are certainly tough or animals are scared of you Doug.
i ve seen one PH getting infection from a kudu in CAR and one guide in Northern Quebec after skinning a caribou cutting himself and getting a little caribou bone in the hand. he didnt like the "hospital" in Kuujuuaq .....
OP asked if he needs immunizations. He was told no. How is that a generally useless answer??
Doc Rainbow
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- Beautiful B.C.
I've been to medical school. Tetanus toxoid booster ( Tdap) every 10 years. That's IF you already had the routine childhood immunizations. And you're not allergic to it. If you are going to another country to hunt or cut meat talk to a travel medicine doctor re shots and precautions. Also talk to a local expert once you are there. CDC has a good website. Wearing gloves to cut up game is a very good idea. I've seen some nasty boils ESPECIALLY in guys cutting up cows. As far as preparing /cooking do your homework with regards to hanging, temperature, cooking/smoking etc.... This is just informal casual advice and I don't take any responsibility if you mess up/get sick etc. Good luck!
Hey Phil.....no doubt what you say about your buddies getting infections, I just never have...........As far as I know (and I am no Doc) one cannot immunize against infections though. It has also been my experience that some folks are more prone to infections than others for what ever reason that may be, again no Doc here just observations..........
Sorry to derail this fine thread.....
What is hard about elephant hunting?...... Anything I have seen makes it look easy....... Not saying I have an informed opinion, as I obviously do not, but my curiosity is peaked......
It certainly does look dangerous though......
Reading the first 15 or so posts, a large number of them are from idiots.
Sorry to derail this fine thread.....
What is hard about elephant hunting?...... Anything I have seen makes it look easy....... Not saying I have an informed opinion, as I obviously do not, but my curiosity is peaked......
It certainly does look dangerous though......
SB.......like goat hunting, what you see on TV doesn't give the full value of the experience. I walked for miles everyday in the extreme heat, in sand, following pie plate prints in the sand only to finally catch up (or not) and find they weren't trophy quality animals. Day after day of walking endlessly in the heat and sand, then to be chased every now and then just to add a little excitement to the day. I literally walked the soles off my feet in the hot sand (and a bad choice in footwear) and my boots were full of blood on night 2 of the hunt. We patched them up and I was back at it the next morning with my camp slippers on, which worked much better in the sand than did my sheep hunting boots. I probably walked more than 50 miles on that hunt and usually through the heat of the day cause that's when they hold up in some shade and you try to catch up to them.
Some guys have been lucky and seen their bull right from the truck, walk over a couple hundred yards and bang him, or catch their goat on the low hills and shoot them from right beside their quad........This kind of luck has always passed me by and I have had to work hard for almost every critter I have.
That elephant hunt was, given the climate and terrain, one of the hardest hunts I have ever endured...........
i had from institut pasteur a shot done while in CAR due to a specific rabby they were working on and was bad. never recollect the data on my international vaccine passport but we were handling a lot of dead animals and we were not using gloves in those days. but i agree some are more prone than others and im not a doc also.
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- Saskatchewan
I'm not aware of any zoonotic disease of Canadian game animals that is of sufficient concern that vaccination is recommended by Canadian health professionals. Rabies could possibly be a concern in fur bearers ( and some African antelope) so trappers might consider a rabies vaccine, but that's it. There are a few parasites and opportunistic bacterial infections that could possibly infect people, but not anyone I have ever met and I do have considerable experience in the area of animal diseases and their transmission to people. So like almost everyone else said, get your tetanus shot, perhaps a rabies vaccine, wear gloves if you like, and stop worrying.
