Immunisation for travelling to Australia

If you are unwell on return from travel, seek medical attention and let your healthcare practitioner know where you have been.

• Courses or boosters usually advised: None.
• Other vaccines to consider: Diphtheria and Tetanus.
• Selectively advised vaccines – only for those individuals at highest risk: Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Japanese Encephalitis.
• Yellow fever vaccination certificate required for travellers aged 1 year or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission ( with the exception of Galapagos islands in Ecuador) and for travellers having transited for more than 12 hours through an airport of a country with risk of yellow fever transmission (with the same exception as mentioned above).