Vaccinations 3

I wasn’t planning on making a 3^rd vaccination post, but I thought I’d do one after receiving the 2^nd JE injection.

So I had no side effects after I received the 1^st shot. Unfortunately, the  2^nd one gave me a pretty severe headache for the rest of the day. I felt slightly out of it. Now I didn’t look at the side effects beforehand because sometimes I have hypochondriatic tendencies. But it turns out a headache is in fact a mild side effect which occurs in about 1 out of every 5 people….this actually made me feel pretty special. 

I didn’t go into many details about the JE vaccination because everyone should be checking with the CDC and with their travel clinic about whether or not they need it. But one thing to know is that JE is contracted in the presence of rice paddies AND pigs and is transmitted through mosquito bites.

The mosquito is such an insane little creature. So tiny, so susceptible to being crushed between a person’s hands but yet so deadly….and even in some rare cases they help bring back dinosaurs.

 

And an interesting fact is that the vaccination is grown in mice brains, which is like mad-scientist crazy.