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sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts) Thu Oct 3, 2019, 04:50 PM Oct 2019

I will have to drive 434 miles on Tuesday to get a yellow fever vaccination.

I need a certificate of vaccination to enter Kenya next month. There is no place in the entire state of Arkansas that can provide the vaccine. I called the state Department of Health and they had no idea where to get one. So, I get to drive to Oklahoma on Tuesday.

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I will have to drive 434 miles on Tuesday to get a yellow fever vaccination. (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 OP

Is your insurance covering that? Hela Oct 2019 #1

I'm on Medicare and don't care if I have to pay out of pocket. sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #2

Try CDC. I just searched under "yellow fever vaccination near Arkansas," and got 54 results. Hoyt Oct 2019 #3

99% do not have the vaccine although they are qualified to sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #5

Well shoot. You'd think there would be more places, lots of folks travel. Hoyt Oct 2019 #7

See my reply below. Because the USA doesn't have yellow sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #9

That seems... odd blaze Oct 2019 #4

Photo only in six different countries. sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #6

Here's what CDC says: sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #8

Hela

(440 posts)

1. Is your insurance covering that?

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 04:51 PM

Oct 2019

Make sure you're covered in another state. You might need to get pre-authorization.

sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts)

2. I'm on Medicare and don't care if I have to pay out of pocket.

Reply to Hela (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 04:54 PM

Oct 2019

With what I've paid for my six weeks in Africa and a departure date of Nov. 2. it's got to happen.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Try CDC. I just searched under "yellow fever vaccination near Arkansas," and got 54 results.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 04:55 PM

Oct 2019

They are from a CDC website.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellow-fever-vaccination-clinics/state/arkansas

sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts)

5. 99% do not have the vaccine although they are qualified to

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 04:59 PM

Oct 2019

do vaccinations for international travel. Been calling places for over three days.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

7. Well shoot. You'd think there would be more places, lots of folks travel.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 05:02 PM

Oct 2019

sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts)

9. See my reply below. Because the USA doesn't have yellow

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #7)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 05:06 PM

Oct 2019

fever, there is an extreme shortage of vaccine.

blaze

(6,374 posts)

4. That seems... odd

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 04:57 PM

Oct 2019

Seems like that would be a relatively standard thing to have in stock.

Glad you found a place before your trip.

Photo safari???

sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts)

6. Photo only in six different countries.

Reply to blaze (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 05:00 PM

Oct 2019

sinkingfeeling

(51,474 posts)

8. Here's what CDC says:

Reply to blaze (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 3, 2019, 05:03 PM

Oct 2019

https://www.cdc.gov/features/yellow-fever-vaccine/index.html

Only a limited number of clinics in the United States have the vaccine. Yellow fever vaccine is the best protection against yellow fever disease, which can be fatal.

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