Travel vaccinations. What do you need to get vaccinated for before leaving?

Before a holiday trip – even within Europe – it is worth getting acquainted with compulsory vaccinations and the health situation of the country to which we are going to go. It may turn out that in some places there is a high probability of contracting a selected disease, which is associated with local epidemics. Special care should be taken by those who go on holiday to tropical countries. Periodic epidemics do not necessarily occur in such places, but it is very easy to get infected while staying on their territory with diseases that do not occur, for example, in our climate zone. Such diseases can even lead to death.

Travel vaccinations

First of all, the State Sanitary Inspection is responsible for disseminating information about compulsory vaccinations and current epidemics. Information about the latest news can be found on the government website — http://www.czepienia.gis.gov.pl/, which was created as a result of the dissemination of the information campaign, which is intended to broaden the public’s knowledge of health threats in various parts of the globe.

What should we know about preventive vaccinations?

1. This is the best and easiest way to strengthen the body and avoid serious diseases. The body’s immunity is raised in a natural way
2. Some recommended preventive vaccinations, which must be done before departure, are financed by the state
3. In the case of a trip to tropical countries, you should see a doctor even two months before the planned trip, because only after that time the vaccine starts to “work”
4. When traveling, let’s check what vaccinations are in force in a given country, because in extreme cases we may not even be allowed to cross the border. The document confirming the vaccination is the International Vaccination Booklet. International Certificates of Vaccination)

Popular vaccines and travel destinations:

• African and South American countries: yellow fever vaccination required
• Saudi Arabia: vaccination against meningococcal infections
• Common vaccines required in some countries: vaccination against hepatitis A and B, diphtheria, tetanus, typhoid, rabies
• Madagascar: vaccination against the plague (increased number of people sick recently)
• Egypt: malaria vaccine (also more and more people are sick recently)