Medical Information

Yellow Fever Vaccination

International Certificate of Vaccination for Yellow Fever is required upon arrival if traveling from an infected area and the traveler is more than 1 year of age.

Also required for travelers arriving from or transiting the following countries within the preceding 6 days:

• Angola
• Kenya
• Belize
• Benin
• Liberia
• Bolivia
• Botswana
• Malawi
• Brazil
• Burkina Faso
• Mali
• Colombia
• Burundi
• Mauritania
• Costa Rica
• Cameroon
• Niger
• Ecuador
• Central African Republic
• Nigeria
• French Guiana
• Chad
• Rwanda
• Guatemala
• Congo
• Sao Tome & Principe
• Guyana
• Equatorial Guinea
• Senegal
• Honduras
• Ethiopia
• Sudan (south of 15*N)
• Nicaragua
• Gabon
• Tanzania
• Panama
• Gambia
• Togo
• Peru
• Ghana
• Uganda
• Suriname
• Guinea
• Zaire
• Venezuela
• Guinea-Bissau
• Zambia
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Ivory Coast 

Malaria - None

Cholera - None

Further information regarding Yellow Fever Vaccination, may be obtained by calling 1-800-VACCINE or the U.S. Department of Health Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) International Traveler's Hotline at (404) 332-4559 or the CDC Fax Information Service at (888) 232-3299. Information may also be obtained from travel medicine specialists and/or a local or state Department of Health clinic.

For all health requirements and recommendations travelers should check with a local Department of Health clinic or U.S Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further information may be obtained from the CDC Web Site for this Region.