Costa Rica Vacation Blog February Archive

Do I Still Need to Take Malaria Vaccines?

02/08/10 08:32

One concern that I always hear from people everytime they intend to go to Costa Rica is the idea of having malaria. Most websites tend to say that one needs to have malaria vaccine shots once here. They lump Costa Rica together with other tropical countries. What these sites do not consider is that Costa Rica is unlike other Central American countries where public health standards are very low.

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