So I got my last shot before the trip this past week.  There's quite a series of vaccines and pills recommended before traveling to Haiti.  Luckily, there's a Passport Health in Santa Fe.  For those not familiar with Passport Health, their the largest provider of travel medical services in the United States with locations nationwide.  So they offer the vaccines that you can't get at your local doctor's office, plus they offer all the common vaccines.  They're a great resource when traveling to someplace like Haiti, though as I was warned, be ready to pay quite a bit since most of these vaccines are not covered by insurance.

Here are the vaccinations I need for Haiti.
*  Hepatitis A - 2 vaccines on 0 and 6 months
*  Hepatitis B - 3 vaccines on 0, 1 month, and 6 months
I went for the combined Hepatitis A and B vaccine (3 shots instead of 5)  at 0, 1 month, and 6 months.  I just received the second shot of this series last Thursday.  Then the last shot (6 months after the first) is after returning from travel to ensure sustained immunity to both diseases.
*  Typhoid fever - A vaccine is good for 2 years or the oral (live typhoid) vaccine is good for 5 years.  I went with the oral (since I don't like shots anyway) and am done taking it without any side effects.
*  Malaria - Pills are taken once a week starting two weeks before travel and ending four weeks after travel.  Interesting tidbit is that when I traveled to Kenya (over 15 years ago) for a safari, there was no recommended vaccine for malaria.
*  Cholera - I have pills in case I need them.  If I don't need these there, it seems I should leave them for someone who might need them, even though it's only one dose of pills.  Guess I'll ask the Carter Work Project folks about this....or not.

Plus, I got the routine vaccinations for the flu and Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis (Tdap).  Tdap is required every 10 years and I was due for mine.  I usually skip the flu vaccine because I've always had a reaction (felt sick the rest of the day) from it.  Since I don't get sick much, I figure I'll play the odds of getting the flu strains that the vaccine protects against.  But I knew I should get the flu vaccine this year.  A co-worker told me how she gets a flu vaccine without  thimerosal, for which she has an allergy.  Well, I'm allergic to thimerosal in eye drops, so I thought (hoped) this might be the cause of my reaction to the flu vaccine.  So...I supposedly received a thimerosal-free flu vaccine and didn't have any reaction.  Yea!  The travel nurse specialist at Passport Health then told me that I actually received 0.1 (1/10th) of the dose of the flu vaccine.  Oh well...  At least I didn't have a reaction to it and in my book, it's taken care of.

This series of vaccines has not been the highlight of my preparations for this trip, but at least I won't need them again for a while, and I'll be ready (vaccine-wise) to travel to countries requiring such vaccines....which I suspect will happen again.