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Ok, I have searched this site and called my county and the surrounding counties looking for some type of cheap alternative. The only thing my county offers is the HEP A & B & Tetnus for about $10, they don't have any others. After calling several places it looks like we'll be spending over 1k for shots each!! that seems insane!!

$380 for Jap E
$600 for rabies
$100 for yellow fever

plus any other additional ones I may not have priced yet like Typhoid, etc.

I really don't want to skip on the rabies since I love animals and plan on spending time volunteering on farms, shelters, etc.

Does anyone have any alternatives at all or a great idea of a cheap place to get these done? It seems absolutely insane to spend this much.

$600 for rabies shot?!?!!!!
pretty sure you can get that here in Canada for under $100!

I'd research the rabies more. We just recently got ours for €150 total (3 shots for €51 each) and most things cost less in the US, not more.
All in all we ended up spending around €450 per person for all available shots except japanese e since we're not going to asia but I got a bunch of other stuff (thypus, diptheria, meningokoken, hep A, cholera, polio refresher, yellow fever)

Well we have been on our multi-year open ended RTW trip for 18 months now and we have not done ANY vaccinations thus far. We have been to rural Turkey and Morocco and our daughter has never had any vaccines in her life ( although she was breastfed and has a lot of immunity from that including Hep A as I had that in my twenties from eating raw clams in Haiti....but I was symptomless with the disease as many are).

I like this take on vaccinations:

http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/vaccines/overseas.html

I find travel clinics tend to want you to take more than are necessary. Disease has more to do with the terrain rather than the germ, so if you are healthy and eat healthy and do lots of hand washing, your risks are probably less than you imagine.

You might want to get your blood titers done as many people are immune to things that they never have had and EVERY vaccine has risks.

little mustard - wow. maybe you should travel to Illinois to get your vaccines hehe. I think the rabies vaccine is like half that here.

actually, when I brought up getting jap enceph to the travel clinic here (yes, i had to bring it up to them) they gave me some info on how rare it was and such... so they didn't recommend i take it, but they gave me the info and said it is worth looking at. we decided against it.