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1. UK Debian travel to Debconf in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2004
Debconf site is at http://www.debconf.org/debconf4/ for more details.
LHR 24th May -> CDG -> POA 25th May
- (conference)
POA 3rd June -> CDG -> LHR 4th June
Travel booked, tickets at Steve's place. Please check off things as you get them organised:
Name |
DD? |
Definitely going to Debconf? |
Vaccinations |
Insurance |
Yes |
Yes |
diph,typ,hepA,yf done |
not yet |
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Yes |
Yes |
diph,tetanus done |
not yet |
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Daniel Silverstone |
Yes |
Yes |
dip/tet done, hepA typh pending, YF/Polio booked Fri 26th. Malaria query from nurse |
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Colin Watson |
Yes |
Yes |
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Matthew Garrett |
Yes |
Yes |
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Scott James Remnant |
Yes |
Yes |
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1.1. Vaccinations
Yellow fever, diphtheria, typhoid and hepatitis A were recommended by my GP, and tetanus is apparently also a good idea if you haven't had a booster recently.
Daniel: It's also recommended that you have polio at some point and that if you're going to some parts of brazil, that you have malaria too. I'm finding out if we will be in that sort of area.
Steve: the nurse I spoke too said malaria was only likely to be an issue within the Amazon rainforest. We're heading to a hotel in a large city in the south of Brazil, so it shouldn't be needed.
1.2. Insurance
Don't leave home without it. Medical bills can be very high if you're abroad. Swapping policy details might be a good plan before we go in case of emergency, but not on the wiki for privacy reasons please!
Tesco will sell you a fortnight of insurance for £40 covering most everything you would be worried about.
[http://www.norwich-union-direct.co.uk/ Norwich Union] seem to charge about £31.