If you are traveling to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires travelers should carefully consider their health.
Travelers should base their considerations on how and where they intend to travel Argentina.
Climatically speaking, Buenos Aires Province has a temperate in climate, but Argentina has some sub-tropical areas in the north. Medically speaking temperate regions are considered safer than tropical regions. However, because Argentina has subtropical areas in far the North close to Iguaçu Falls some precautions may be necessary.
Medical professionals generally consider temperate regions safer than tropical regions where many of the same diseases you would encounter in Africa and Asia are also prevalent such as Dengue Fever, Malaria and Yellow Fever. Mosquitoes carry and transmit such diseases when feeding on your blood.
The requirements for travel health in Buenos Aires of other parts of Argentina are slightly different from other parts of the world with temperate climates and if you intend to travel around Argentina or on to the Northern parts of South America, which are rural or considered tropical, in both cases, prevention is better than cure. You should consult your doctor.
Dengue Fever is making its way south; there have been many reported cases in Northern Argentina, and last year only winter saved Buenos Aires from an epidemic. That means prevention is most certainly better than cure, and protection from Mosquito bites is even more important when traveling north.
So our first travel health tip is too bring Deet (it works the best), forget Citronella, the locals (Mosquitoes) seem to thrive on it. If bitten resist scratching, use your mind to zap-it, scratching makes Mosquito bites much worse and itchier and once programmed you tear bites in your sleep. Mother dabs bites with bleach, it works, but quite how safe it is we are not sure!
We looked a mess two years ago and still have the scars to prove the attacks! If you are allergic to the bites and swell, take anti-histamine daily, before you get Mosquito bites.
Speak to your GP (general doctor) before coming to South America and more specifically about your travel health in Buenos Aires and Argentina – it is worth mentioning following immunizations:
Hepatitis A (everyone), Hepatitis B (if you intend long-term sexual partners or unsafe sex), Tetanus and Typhoid. If traveling in the tropical and rural regions consider Yellow Fever vaccinations and this year everyone should get their Flu shots.
If like me you never had any childhood illnesses such as Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Chickenpox, have a word with the doctor, as all these diseases are more prevalent due to poorer standards of preventative medicine and lower percentages of the population receiving childhood immunization.
Therefore, travel health in Buenos Aires, Argentina and South America is clearly about prevention; speak to your GP – plan, as preventative care requires that your body has time to build immunity.
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