I'll be going to Ninh Binh, Tam Coc, Hoa Lu, and Phat Diem in a couple of weeks for a 2-day trip and was wondering if I need to take malaria medication for this little trip?? I have not yet left Hanoi, so I'm not exactly sure when and where malaria meds are necessary. If I do need to take them, does anyone know if I need a doctor's prescription to buy them and where I can get them??? Thanks so much in advance!!!
AnhandMatt posted about 7 months ago to Help!. Viewed 46 times. Answered 3 times.
You don't need them, if your only off for 2 days and proberly staying in some sort of accomadation with a fan or A/C.
Now if you tell me your going to be staying in stagnanting swamp, naked, and sweating like a dog in a Chinese resuarant, i might tell you different.
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There's no point in worrying about that. Ninh Binh is not deep inside a jungle. Actually it's a town with lot of hotels and restaurants...
Even if you're in a jungle you may not be bitten by a mosquito. Even you're bitten by a mosquito, it may not be an anopheles. Finally, even it's an anopheles, it might not have a blood meal from an infected human...
Look at those people in Ninh Binh. They aren't suffering malaria, are they?
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and even then, you still have to protect yourself from mosquitos because of dengue fever. Better to forget about the malaria medication in Vietnam - use repellent, cover up and don't sit outside at dusk when they are worst.
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