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Originally Posted by mikesouth
again a strong immune system isnt going to save you from Hep A or B and its crazy not to vaccinate for them you dont want Hep...
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I did not say that. I said that I do not want to mess my regular immune system with vaccinations, not that my immune system would save me from contracting hep a.
And it is the sole reason I do not want vaccination. Costs of it is no factor at all, even if they were 100% free.
I did a research and it is VERY unlikely to get hep A or typhoid from traveling there.
For example in my city of 500K people there were only 5 hep a and 3 typhoid cases PER YEAR (total, not just out of those who traveled anywhere). Most of them were contracted by traveling to exotic countries (India most prelevant as hygiene there is way lower than Thailand) and only 1 from Thailand. Although half of the cases were contracted by eating contaminated imported strawberries. So only 1 handful of people in whole year got hep a or typhoid.
If you are very cautious chances are very minimum.
Like the dude here says:
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I live in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. You'll need to try REALLY hard to contract rabies, typhoid or hepatitis. My advice is to get NO vaccinations. Don't take malaria pills either unless you see yourself running around in the Burmese jungle.
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Which jabs are needed for Thailand? - Telegraph
I understand that it is best to be safe than sorry, but chances are probably (wild guess) 1 in 10.000 un-vaccinated tourists to Thailand get either hep a or typhoid.
As for hep B - not planning to do any activities that involves that. Unless I get in an accident and need blood ...