Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Dengue innoculations Early 2016

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No joke. The vaccine comes from Europe, and Sector Salud, will be distributing it to local health agencies like IMSS and Seguro Popular. The first shipment is from SANOFI a highly reputable European pharmaceutical manufacturer. Supposed to prevent deadly hemorrhagic dengue by almost 90%.

There is little if any threat of Dengue in cities and large towns due to mosquito abatement controls. I haven't heard of a case in Zihuatanejo or Ixtapa in decades, but for us rural "Bulls-Eyes" the new vaccine should be a blessing.

Tourists are ineligible, as they do not need it.

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No joke. The vaccine comes from Europe, and Sector Salud, will be distributing it to local health agencies like IMSS and Seguro Popular. The first shipment is from SANOFI a highly reputable European pharmaceutical manufacturer. Supposed to prevent deadly hemorrhagic dengue by almost 90%.

Not given to anyone over 40.

There is little if any threat of Dengue in cities and large towns due to mosquito abatement controls. I haven't heard of a case in Zihuatanejo or Ixtapa in decades, but for us rural "Bulls-Eyes" the new vaccine should be a blessing.

jajaja I know at least 10 personal friends, myself included in the last two years.

Tourists are ineligible, as they do not need it.

That's right, the mosquitos would not bite a tourist.

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No joke. The vaccine comes from Europe, and Sector Salud, will be distributing it to local health agencies like IMSS and Seguro Popular. The first shipment is from SANOFI a highly reputable European pharmaceutical manufacturer. Supposed to prevent deadly hemorrhagic dengue by almost 90%.

Not given to anyone over 40.

There is little if any threat of Dengue in cities and large towns due to mosquito abatement controls. I haven't heard of a case in Zihuatanejo or Ixtapa in decades, but for us rural "Bulls-Eyes" the new vaccine should be a blessing.

jajaja I know at least 10 personal friends, myself included in the last two years.

:megusta: Así es. Me consta.

Tourists are ineligible, as they do not need it.

That's right, the mosquitos would not bite a tourist.

Tourists can pay for their own damn vaccine! They don't need our "free shit". They don't even want their own citizens to have "free shit". :devil:

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Tourists can pay for their own damn vaccine! They don't need our "free shit". They don't even want their own citizens to have "free shit".

I'm sure many tourists, as well as part-time and full-time residents who are not Mexican citizens, would be happy to pay for this vaccine!

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Tourists can pay for their own damn vaccine! They don't need our "free shit". They don't even want their own citizens to have "free shit".

Really Rob? Let's see, so far in 2015 "free shit" from my government have included two visits to my GP, many pre-cancerous skin growths removed, Pneumonia vaccine, shingles vaccine, I would have had a free flue shot if I had been home when it became available, three visits to the CNS out patients clinic at the hospital, three to an orthotist, two visits to my Physiatrist, three to my internist and at least three medical lab tests. And many of those will probably be repeated in 2016.

Or are you forgetting that Americans aren't the only tourists in Mexico?

So far this season in Zihua I have met Argentinians, Ausies, Brits, Canucks, Finns . . .

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Tourists can pay for their own damn vaccine! They don't need our "free shit". They don't even want their own citizens to have "free shit".

Really Rob? Let's see, so far in 2015 "free shit" from my government have included two visits to my GP, many pre-cancerous skin growths removed, Pneumonia vaccine, shingles vaccine, I would have had a free flue shot if I had been home when it became available, three visits to the CNS out patients clinic at the hospital, three to an orthotist, two visits to my Physiatrist, three to my internist and at least three medical lab tests. And many of those will probably be repeated in 2016.

Or are you forgetting that Americans aren't the only tourists in Mexico?

So far this season in Zihua I have met Argentinians, Ausies, Brits, Canucks, Finns . . .

Poor Canadian! Can't you even tell when we're NOT talking about you? I LOVE your new PM and your socialized medicine. The guilty party knows who they are. Everyone else can just keep on truckin'. Nothing to see here! :stirpot:

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Ah, a real socialist at heart.

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I think Rob has a point here. Who wouldn't be a socialist "at heart", unless you didn't have one, of course.

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Tourists can pay for their own damn vaccine! They don't need our "free shit". They don't even want their own citizens to have "free shit".

I pay for this kind of stuff in the States and would be happy to pay for it in Mexico, if it's made available.
Just out of curiosity: How come it's OK to use the words shit and piss on the board, but the "F" word is banished?

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Really Rob.? Mexico doesn't mind taking our U.S. tax dollars and loves the U.S . Dollars we bring to your country every year. Those tax dollars are your FREE SHIT from us last time I looked.

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Like any vaccine, it would take a few weeks to become effective. So for the seasonal tourist who would be there for a week or two, the vaccine would not be warranted, since it would only provide immunity after you had returned home.

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My wife got denque fever while staying on Madeira at Las Brisas 4 years ago. Two years ago one of our friends at LaCeiba spent five days in Maciel clinique with dengue fever and left and a few hundred dollars poorer for 24/7 treatment... so much for tourists not needing the innoculations....

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But even if the vaccine were available 4 years ago, she would have had to be vaccinated several weeks before arrival for it to be effective upon arrival.

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My wife got denque fever while staying on Madeira at Las Brisas 4 years ago. Two years ago one of our friends at LaCeiba spent five days in Maciel clinique with dengue fever and left and a few hundred dollars poorer for 24/7 treatment... so much for tourists not needing the innoculations....

I'm afraid there's been some confusion. No one said tourists didn't need the inoculations. Just that the Mexican government's principal public health care services will NOT be providing free dengue vaccinations to ineligible persons, into which category the great majority of foreigners in Mexico would naturally fall. See?

¡Felices Fiestas!

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I'm afraid there's been some confusion. No one said tourists didn't need the inoculations.

Except for the OP who said "Tourists are ineligible, as they do not need it."

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I'm afraid there's been some confusion. No one said tourists didn't need the inoculations.

Except for the OP who said "Tourists are ineligible, as they do not need it."

Excuuuuuuse me then, please, because I read "it" differently. Carry on.... :giveup:

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Does that mean that permanent residents are eligible?

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Does that mean that permanent residents are eligible?

Anyone who is enrolled in the Mexican government's principal public health care services mentioned previously is eligible.

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In other words if you have IMSS insurance or pay into IMSS here.

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And are between 9 and 45 years old. I presume that eliminates a large portion of otherwise eligible expats.

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If I decide I want to be inoculated and I am denied under my public health care plan then I have no problem at all paying for it because I have the means to do so unlike millions of my countrymen in both the USA and here.

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As I understand it, the present dengue vaccine poses a health risk to younger children and has reduced effectiveness for older adults - hence the age guidelines.

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CNN last night. 180 cases of dengue on the big island. OMG now the "responsible authorities" there are getting more than just a little excited.

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