Not if you stick your tongue in someone's dung.
I think you're maybe confusing it with Hep A.
If you travel a lot it's worth getting combination shots against hepatitis, typhoid and maybe yellow fever if you're adventurous. Saves worrying.
cholera, diphtheria, polio and tetanus booster, tetanus, hepatitis A some combined vaccines, such as combined hepatitis A and B are all free AFAIK just now ...
hepatitis B, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, tuberculosis and yellow fever are all chargeable I understand just now. I've had jags for rabies and yellow fever (yellow fever jag at least lasts for ten years.)
While on the subject (sorry to hijack) of meds generally but travel meds, anti - malarials are a massive rip off in the U.K. just now. Assess the requirements carefully yourself (they are generally overestimated, e.g. Recommending for the whole of a country when only a tiny area is affected a thousand miles from the big city you're visiting, recommending expensive over generics, or saying generics aren't in stock, adding a times-ten mark-up on each pill, a right con). If you've worked out which types are best for where you are going (if any), look at how soon they need to be started (if you are somewhere where you won't get bitten for a few days first, buy locally or on the way). Stock UP for a future trip buying while abroad. Or just buy enough for emergency treatment in the unlikely even you get malaria symptoms.
On hepatitis and rimming, must say most people can tell the difference between a spotlessly clean asshole and one that's not. But people will also pay less attention to to their cutlery in a dodgy restaurant .
Here's a site that will run thru types and causes
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