Hi everybody this is blank Dino and today we're going to talk about vaccines you need to get to go to Japan. So vaccines aren't actually something that's required if you go to Japan but it's highly recommended especially if you don't want to spend your first week there just feeling terrible and sick. There are several vaccines that are recommended if you go to Japan but there's two different categories. The first categories is all travelers and this is what the CDC recommends for everybody that's traveling pretty much anywhere. Then there's the some traveler section and I'm going to put a link to the CDC website I'm talking about in the comments and this is coming from America. The CDC is an American governmental I think it's run by the government it could be private I wouldn't know. I believe it's governmental though. Association that is the Center for Disease Control and they make sure that you don't get rabies I guess. But they tell you things that are poisonous and obviously recommend vaccines for travelers. All travelers are recommended to be updated on their routine vaccinations. Routine vaccinations are things like measles, mumps and rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccines, the chickenpox and polio vaccine and of course your yearly flu shot. Now personally I don't think I've had a flu shot in America since ever. Maybe when I was in high school my parents don't got to decide if I got a flu shot but I I never get them and I was going to be like oh I don't get flu shots so you shouldn't even worry about that. But then I realized I get the flu every year so maybe it's a good idea to get the flu shot. Maybe I'll start trying that out. Definitely before I go to Japan I'm going to get the flu shot. One thing to keep in mind is that if you get a cold in America and you get a cold in Japan those are going to be different strains. So some of the things that you may have experienced when you were younger or before you're going to have to redo because they have different strains in Japan. The next section I'm going to talk about is some travelers. Some of these are only recommended but I would strongly recommend hepatitis A and hepatitis B. These are things we have in America too and there's outbreaks all the time. Small ones and they're well contained but you hear about there was a hepatitis A a couple years ago that was spread via various sold at Costco for smoothies. So if you don't already have these maybe just get them for living in America. Hepatitis A is generally contracted through things like contaminated food and waters. Hepatitis B is a nasty one. It can be an STD but also transferred through blood. The way it's transferred is the same as AIDS. It's not AIDS. Don't think I said that but it's contracted via sexual contact if you share needles with somebody else or anytime blood touches. So it transfers in the same way. If you're going to get a tattoo if you're going to have a new partner in Japan or if you're going to do anything like get a piercing it might be a good idea to get the hepatitis B vaccine. Now of course you don't have to get any of these vaccines but it's a good idea even if you just live in America. If you're a splunker and you're gonna go caving and you may have any contact with bats it's a good idea to get a rabies vaccine. Japan is a country that's very concerned about rabies and when I make my video about how to take your dog or cat to Japan you're gonna find out all about that but for now let's just talk about bats. If you're gonna go caving you want to get a rabies vaccine. If you've ever seen any movies or videos of people getting rabies if you get bit it slowly goes to your brain and you go crazy. There's a movie actually a Spanish movie about this called Reck. You should maybe check it out. It's not necessarily true to life to what happens with the rabies but rabies is very nasty and if you can prevent yourself from contracting it do. This is one you don't necessarily need unless you're gonna have contact with any type of species that are already infected with rabies which in Japan would be bats. The next vaccine I'm going to talk about is called Japanese Encephalitis. Japanese Encephalitis is contracted via mosquitoes. It's similar to malaria and how it's transferred. It's not malaria. I didn't say it's malaria. It's not malaria but it is transferred by mosquitoes as it is malaria transferred by mosquitoes. Japanese Encephalitis is very dangerous. If you contract it it can cause severe mental retardation and even death. The CDC recommends you get the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine if you're going to be in rural Japan. However mosquitoes go everywhere. They're not as common maybe in more industrial or cities like Tokyo but there are still mosquitoes. So personally this is a vaccine I'm going to get because it's so dangerous it's not worth your life. In closing don't get bit by a bat. Don't get bit by a mosquito. Don't share use needles with other people and don't lick door knobs and you should be fine in Japan. This is Leng Dino thanks for watching. Leng Dino