Originally Posted by
HelloKittysMum
I travel extensively for work in far east, South East Asia, South Asia and Africa and I have all my jabs and when in malarial zone take the tablets (even though the people I visit including expats don't bother). Two years ago I came back from Malaysia with a cough which turned out to be atypical pneumonia and I was in hospital for 8 days and off work for a month plus phased return.
A wise precaution. I was in East Africa about a month ago. The colleague I was working with (who was from our Nigeria office) was clearly not feeling well. She just wrote me that she was back in the office after having dealt with both malaria and typhoid fever.