Hepatitis A vaccine necessary?

After reading CDC guidelines for travel to French Polynesia & recommendations for Hepatitis A vaccine I wonder how many people actually do this? We will be extending our cruise with days on Moorea & Tahiti, eating local food. Also, excursions that include beach barbecues from local vendors.

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I went to those islands three years ago and no shots. Also ate in local restaurants, including goat.

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No one I know has ever gotten any vaccinations. Not necessary in French Polynesia. I certainly never got any.

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My dr told me before I went to China that if you eat out 30 or more times a year that you should get hep a shots. It has nothing to do with travel. You increase your risk if you often eat at restaurants whether they are foreign or domestic. Most of us have two kidneys and only one liver. I have no interest in possibly screwing up my liver because some dork decided not wash his hands after using the bathroom.

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My husband and I did get the shots this year. Our Primary Care physicians suggested that we get them. We have been spending March in Mexico for the last 25 years and I mentioned that we would be traveling to FP this summer. They both said, " better to be safe than sorry". (Really not sure that we really NEEDED them, but we got them.)

If you travel the world it makes sense to have ALL your vaccinations and immunizations up to date.

Yellow fever is the only one we have taken for specific countries and FP is not one of them.