Infectious diseases
Malaria
Malaria is a serious and potentially life-threatening disease, transmitted to humans through the bite of infected female Anopheles spp. mosquitoes
Updated: 13 February 2024
Influenza (flu)
Influenza is a highly infectious, viral infection of the lungs and airways
Updated: 18 December 2024
Dengue
Dengue is an infection caused by the dengue virus of which there are four different subtypes. The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes
Updated: 29 July 2024Preparing for healthy travel
- Diseases spread by insects and ticks in Europe
- Diseases spread by insects and ticks in the American continent (the Americas)
- First aid kits
- Food and water hygiene
- General advice for travellers
- Insect and tick bite avoidance
- Medicines and travel
- Personal safety
- Snake bites and avoidance
- Summer travel: advice for students and young holidaymakers
- Sun protection
- Travel Insurance
- Travelling for Carnival
- Venous thromboembolism
- Zika virus: Evaluating the risk to individual travellers
First aid kits
A travel health first aid kit is recommended for travellers
Updated: 30 August 2017
Insect and tick bite avoidance
Protection from insect and tick bites is essential to help prevent vector-borne diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and Zika
Updated: 21 March 2024
Travel Insurance
Travellers must declare medical conditions when taking out travel insurance to ensure they are suitably covered
Updated: 26 September 2019Special risk travel/traveller
Hajj and Umrah
The Ministry of Health of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia issue their requirements and recommendations for Hajj and Umrah annually
Updated: 15 May 2024
Travelling with additional needs and/or disability
This factsheet provides an overview and advice on the points to consider when travelling with additional needs and/or disability
Updated: 06 February 2018
Sickle cell disease and thalassaemia
Information on pre-travel preparation, tips to stay health abroad and links to useful resources for travellers with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia
Updated: 19 February 2021Clinic resources
- 'Getting to Grips...' online events and video guides
- Checking drug interactions
- Country-specific information: Rationale
- COVID-19: Resources
- COVID-19: Testing and demonstrating status for international travel
- COVID-19: Travel risk assessment
- Educational events
- Female genital mutilation (FGM)
- General immunisation
- Interrupted vaccination schedules: general principles
- LGBT travellers: changes to vaccine certificates
- Malaria resources
- Management and reporting of adverse events
- Medicines management
- Polio vaccination certificate
- Risk assessment / Risk management checklist
- Standards in travel medicine
- The green book travel chapters
- Travel health infographics
- Useful sites
- Vaccines and medicines: availability, supply, shortages and use of unlicensed medicines
- Yellow fever pre-vaccination checklist
- Yellow fever vaccine: contraindications and precautions reminder
- Yellow fever: Information for travellers leaflet
Educational events
A list of courses, conferences and study days of relevance to UK health professionals working, or wishing to work, in the field of travel medicine
Updated: 14 March 2017
Vaccines and medicines: availability, supply, shortages and use of unlicensed medicines
Information for health professionals on availability of vaccines and use of unlicensed products
Updated: 17 October 2022
The green book travel chapters
UK Health Security Agency Immunisation against infectious disease, the 'green book' travel chapter updates
Updated: 06 February 2024
