When you travel overseas you have to go through a lot of different kinds of shots before you can even get on the boat or the airlines, whichever one you are traveling by. When you go into the military you are given a lot of shots also. When you have children they have several different kinds of shots that these kids have to have before they can get into school. The medical companies keep adding different kinds of shots every couple of years. One you are supposed to have once every ten years. This is the tetanus shot.



When my kids were little they had to have a liquid form of shot for Polio, a DPT shot, a Td shot and one for Measles, Mumps and Rubella or an MMR. Now they have more that I don't even know of . One shot that I do know of is chicken pox. As you see our children only had to have these four shots to get into school, but the kids of today will probably feel like a pin cushion by the time they have had all their shots.

The kinds of shots that you will need to travel can depend on the places that you are going to travel to. For some places you might need a shot of this or someplace else you might need a whole different set of shots. In the military you will stand in line, and they will give you your shots by two big needle guns that will hold all the medicine for all the shots so that they can be given all at once. If you don't like needles like I don't, then I suggest that you don't look.

Do you realize that if you take your pet on a trip overseas that they will also have to get shots given to them? If you really don't want to do this to your pet, you might want to find somewhere for your animal to stay. Most people will put their animals in shelters while they are gone, but this can become very expensive, and most of the animals will come out looking like they had not been taken care of. But most of these shelters are the best.