A sensible backpacker will make sure they are fully immunised against all major diseases and viruses before embarking on their backpacking adventure.

Getting ill in a foreign country is not only often extremely expensive and traumatic but also very dangerous.

Although having good fully comprehensive health care travel insurance for backpackers is essential this insurance is often not very good in remote areas where hospitals are not able to verify the validity of the insurance or else despite you being insured demand huge amounts of money prior to treating you. This danger is compounded by the language barriers you will encounter in many countries

Nearly every serious illness you may be exposed to during your backpacking adventures is able to be avoided by a single immunisation that may well turn out to be the best investment you will have made during your lifetime.