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Travelling to Colombia with 7 months old baby?

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ainoa9 · 29/02/2012 10:19

Does anyone have any experience in travelling to Colombia (or similar country) with less than a 1 year old? We would like to go and visit daddy's relatives in Bogota (maybe Cartagena and Medellin, too) but I'm a little worried about giving my daughter so many vaccinations for that. According to my GP nurse, she would need to be protected against yellow fever, malaria, Hepatitis A & B and typhoid.

Looking at this travel vaccinations website:

www.mdtravelhealth.com/destinations/samerica/colombia.php

it looks like that if I stay in Bogota only, I don't need the yellow fever vaccination after all - which is a bit of a relief as is it a live vaccine and particularly harsh one on a baby and adult alike. But does anyone know how reliable this 'MD Travel Health' site is?

I'm breastfeeding her but I've never lived or visited Colombia before in my life. Which means,according to the aforementioned nurse - that she won't get any immunity for local diseases in there from my breast milk.

Would it be better to wait until she's a bit older, at least over 1 year, or am I over worrying/cautious mum?

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Judez99 · 29/02/2012 11:14

Hi, I lived in Colombia for 2.5 years (my hubby is from Medellin) but although I haven't been there with my son yet I can tell you that there is definitely no malaria in any of those places. Not sure about the other diseases - as far as I know there is no Yellow Fever in those places either - I was vaccinated for it when I lived there but that was just because I went to Brazil. I wouldn't wait till she is over one, but you might want to do some more research into whether she needs the Hep A&B and typhoid jabs.

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