We use the Center for Disease Control traveler's health recommendations (www.cdc.gov.) Your travel doctor will know about current epid em ics and should be consulted.
Hepatitis A |
Recommended for all travelers |
Typhoid |
Recommended for all travelers |
Polio |
One-time booster recommended for any adult traveler who completed the childhood series but never had polio vaccine as an adult |
Yellow fever |
Required for all travelers arriving from a yellow-fever-infected area in Africa or the Americas . Not recommended otherwise. |
Japanese encephalitis |
For long-term (>1 month) travelers to rural areas or travelers who may engage in extensive unprotected outdoor activities in rural areas, especially after dusk |
Hepatitis B |
For travelers who may have intimate contact with local residents, especially if visiting for more than 6 months |
Rabies |
For travelers who may have direct contact with animals and may not have access to medical care |
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) |
Two doses recommended for all travelers born after 1956, if not previously given |
Tetanus-diphtheria |
Revaccination recommended every 10 years |
