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In South Africa there are many types of diseases, doctors recommend to get your routine vaccines before going.

These vaccines include measles-mumps-rubella, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, polio, and your yearly flu shot. The CDC recommend travelers to get their hepatitis A vaccines because you could catch a disease from contaminated water or food regardless of where you stay or eat. eople who!ve traveled to Africa recommend anyone who plan on visiting South Africa to get their vaccine called hepatitis " which is a disease spread through se#ual contact or intercourse. $epatitis " could also be spread through blood transfusion or if your getting a tattoo. The bugs of South Africa is said to have spreadable disease for e#ample the mos%uito they drain strangers blood and every time they sin& their stingers into other travelers they spread the blood they!ve recently stole from others. Doctors recommend if ever bit by a mos%uito to wipe the area where the bug bit you with chloro%uine. Sightings of animals have been seen and said to have rabies. So doctors recommend to get your rabies vaccines before setting off. 'abies are a deadly disease that is spread by animals who bite or ma&e any contact towards your flesh or blood even their saliva. Any animal could get rabies there!s no telling but usually when they have rabies they occasionally begin to foam saliva from their mouths. Its affects the nervous system, ultimately causing brain disease and death. (nce infected its usually fatal so &eep caution of ma&ing contact. )or anyone who comes from anywhere where the yellow fever is possible to catch is to get the vaccine for yellow fever. *ellow fever isn!t a disease found in South Africa but the government of Africa is demanding anyone from places where its possible to obtain yellow fever to get vaccinated. In +,,- over a million people have died from diseases in South Africa because they were incurable. The number one &iller in South Africa today is .alaria or &nown as blood fusion. /accines for hepatitis 0 is recommended because hepatitis 0 is a air borne disease that interferes with liver control and is occasionally spread through water in meals. The plague is &nown in South Africa to cause deaths usually spread by rats and sometimes air borne. Another disease seen throughout South Africa is the rift valley fever its a viral disease affecting domestic animals and humans. The total population in South Africa today is around 12,3-4,555 and the life e#pectancy at birth if you were to

live your whole life is 45 at most. The probability of dying under the age of five is 617. The probability of dying between the ages of fifteen and si#ty is 857. Another disease that!s carried through by rates is lassa fever. 9assa fever is a viral disease that has a fatal rate of 157 so doctors warn visitors to get that vaccine. There are about 2+ different types of disease in South Africa that could be fatal. In South Africa most people are poor and wea& so they would have a higher chance of being infected so many doctors are on stand by. (nce a infection is noticed its best to rush to a doctors even if its a guess if it is or not an infection. Those who have been vaccinated still have chances of being infected so caution even though you may believe to be protected doesn!t mean your not able to die.

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