Immunisation for travelling to Egypt

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: Tetanus.
• Other vaccines to consider: Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Rabies and Typhoid.
• Selectively advised vaccines – only for those individuals at highest risk: None.
• 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 Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia) for travellers having transited more than 12 hours through the airport of a country with risk of yellow fever transmission (with the same additions mentioned above). In the absence of a vaccination certificate, the individual will be detained in quarantine for up to 6 days of departure from an area at risk of yellow fever transmission.