TRAVEL HEALTH ADVICE (click for general advice)

FINLAND

• 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.
• As of October 2001, Finland has been given "rabies free" status by WHO. In the event of an animal bite it should be ensured that the animal involved could not have come from a neighboring infected country. 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.

Malaria - See Map

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