TRAVEL HEALTH ADVICE (click for general advice)

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• 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).
• Courses or boosters sometimes advised: hepatitis A (not normally for package tourists).
• Rabies is not normally present (excluding the North African coast) but animal or bat bites should always be assessed carefully and 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.
• 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.