Japanese Encephalitis I
Rabies is finished, bring on the JE jabs.. 3 of those too.. 
I had the first one today, and boy are there some notes in the little box! 25% of recipients suffer some sort of reaction, which is quite high…
Anyway, this baby stings like hell for 5 minutes after the actual jab but at least I didn’t suffer an immediate reaction (30 minutes after the jab) so I was pleased about that… However, I cannot leave the country for 10 days and I MUST be near a hospital for the next 17 days in case I do get a reaction… 17 days?? That seems a long time as I have my second dose in 11 days time!!
Also I cannot drink alcohol for 48 hours - I’m counting the hours already! About an hour ago I had a vomiting episode, let’s hope that’s the end of any reaction, at least I’m not breaking out in urticaria hives, well… not yet anyway.
The injection is made of mouse brains that are infected with the disease. It comes in two bottles, the brains in one bottle and some kind of salt solution in the other. They are mixed together, shaken and injected. Mouse brains look just like a very fine white powder, you learn something every day!
The nurse was very careful and disinfected her hands several times… Apparently they can also get a reaction if they come into contact with the stuff too!! Oh well, onwards and upwards… Only 2 more of these to go!