TRAVEL HEALTH ADVICE (click for general advice)

CZECH REPUBLIC

• Confirm primary courses and boosters are up to date as recommended in the vaccination schedule - including vaccines given to special groups because of risk exposure or complications (e.g. hepatitis B for health care workers, influenza and pneumococcal vaccines for the elderly).
• Vaccines sometimes advised: hepatitis A; tick-borne encephalitis.
• Rabies is present, but post exposure treatment should be readily available.
• No vaccine certificate required.

Notes on the diseases mentioned above

• Hepatitis A is spread through contaminated food and water and can cause liver inflammation and jaundice. In risk areas you should be immunised if good hygiene is impossible.
• Tickborne encephalitis is spread by tick bites. It is a serious infection of the brain and vaccination is advised for those in risk areas unable to avoid tick bites such as campers, forestry workers and ramblers.

Malaria - See Map

• Malaria - See Map not normally present unless the illness was contracted abroad.