TRAVEL HEALTH ADVICE (click for general advice)

DENMARK

• 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: Tick-borne encephalitis (for Bornholm Island only)
• Rabies is not normally present (only one bat rabies during 2004) but post exposure treatment should be available.
• No vaccine certificate required.

Notes on the diseases mentioned above

• 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.
• Rabies is spread through bites or licks on broken skin from an infected animal. It is always fatal. Vaccination is advised for those going to risk areas that will be remote from a reliable source of vaccine. Even when pre-exposure vaccines have been received urgent medical advice should be sought after any animal bite.

Malaria - See Map

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