Immunisation for travelling to Costa Rica

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: Hepatitis A.
• Other vaccines to consider: Diphtheria, Rabies and Tetanus.
• Selectively advised vaccines – only for those individuals at highest risk: Hepatitis B.
• Yellow fever vaccination certificate required for travellers aged 9 months or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission with the addition of Tanzania and Zambia in the African region; the exception of Argentina and Panama in the Americas; and the following specifications for these countries:Colombia (the entire country except Barranquilla, Cali, Cartagena, Medellín and San Andrés Providencia y Bogotá); Ecuador (applies only to Morona-Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Sucumbíos y Zamora-Chinchipe, and excludes the rest of the country); Paraguay (the entire country except Asunción, the capital); Peru (the entire country except Lima, the capital, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, The Inca trail, Lambayeque, Tumbes, Piura and Cajamarca); Trinidad and Tobago (the entire country except the urban areas of Port of Spain, and for travellers in transit or whose itineraries are limited to the island of Tobago).