A large country with a well developed health care system. Depending on your itinerary your health care provider may offer you vaccination against hepatitis B, influenza, meningococcal meningitis, or rabies. Routine immunizations, such as those that prevent tetanus/diphtheria or "childhood" diseases, should be reviewed and updated as needed.

Sanitation is generally good, and health concerns related to foods and beverages are minimal. Precautions may be warranted in some areas, but nothing out of the ordinary is needed for most travelers.

Diseases transmitted by insects are not generally a problem in this country, although mosquitoes and ticks do transmit dengue fever, West Nile virus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, erlichiosis, and babesiosis. Personal protective measures are important when insect exposure is anticipated.

Rabies is transmitted by bites or scratches from bats. Anyone who sleeps in a house where bats are subsequently found or who has had other significant contact with unconfined bats in an enclosed space should receive immediate postexposure rabies treatment, even if the individual does not remember being bitten.

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