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Other vaccine preventable risks

The following vaccinations may be considered depending on your itinerary and planned activities. These can be discussed in more detail with one of our travel health consultants.

Hepatitis B

Rabies

Tuberculosis

Malaria risk

Risk of Malaria is present all year round in regions below 2000m. Risk is high in the Amazon basin area in the north and east of the country. Malaria tablets are strongly advised for these areas. This can be discussed in detail with one of our travel health consultants.

Non-vaccine preventable risks

• Travellers' Diarrhoea  is usually caused by eating contaminated food or drinking unsafe water.  Symptoms may be severe with frequent watery stools, thirst, dry mouth and tongue, headache and weakness. Water should always be treated when there is doubt about its cleanliness. Food that may be contaminated must be thoroughly cooked and hands washed prior to eating.

• HIV infection is spread through sexual intercourse or infected blood or blood products (e.g. through blood transfusions or the use of blood contaminated instruments such as intravenous needles). 

• Leishmaniasis is spread through the bite of an infected sand fly. It can cause a slowly growing skin lump or ulcer and sometimes a serious life-threatening fever with anaemia and weight loss. Infected dogs are carriers of the infection. Sand fly bites should be avoided whenever possible. 

• Dengue Fever, which is often referred to as break-bone fever, is spread through the bite of the mosquito. It causes a feverish illness with headache and muscle pains like a bad, prolonged, attack of influenza. A rash can also develop. It is becoming more common in many parts of the world. Mosquito bites should be avoided whenever possible. 

• Trypanosomiasis (American) is transmitted to humans through the skin of infected reduviid bugs.  The disease may have an acute but often asymptomatic phase, followed by chronic systemic symptoms.  The risk to travellers is generally low, unless staying for prolonged periods in very rural and poor circumstances.

• Bartonellosis is transmitted through the bite of sandflies. It occurs exclusively in the Andean valleys of Ecuador and Peru. Symptoms include fever, severe head, joint and bone pains and anaemia.