Getting travel vaccines can take one appointment or several months, depending on what you already have, where you are going, and which vaccines your clinician recommends. For many trips, the practical goal is to have a travel-health appointment at least four to six weeks before departure.
That does not mean every traveler needs six weeks of injections. Someone whose routine vaccines are current may need only one visit. Another traveler may need a multi-dose series, a yellow fever appointment at an authorized clinic, or time to locate old vaccination records.
It also does not mean you should give up if the plane leaves next week. Some useful vaccines can still be given close to departure, and certain schedules can be accelerated when medically appropriate. A last-minute consultation can also cover malaria medication, food and water precautions, insect protection, and other risks that a vaccine cannot prevent.
The most important point is simple: travel vaccines are based on the traveler and the itinerary, not merely the country name. A three-night business trip in a major city may lead to different advice than six weeks of rural fieldwork in the same country.
Quick Answer
Schedule a travel-health appointment four to six weeks before leaving when possible. That gives the clinician time to review your records, administer recommended vaccines, arrange follow-up doses, and allow protection to develop.
Some important planning intervals include:
| Vaccine or planning need | Typical timing to allow |
| Travel-health consultation | Ideally 4–6 weeks before departure |
| Yellow fever | One dose; certificate from a primary vaccination becomes valid after 10 days |
| Injectable typhoid | One dose at least 2 weeks before travel |
| Oral typhoid | Four capsules on alternating days; finish at least 1 week before travel |
| Rabies pre-exposure vaccination for selected travelers | Two doses on days 0 and 7 |
| Japanese encephalitis for selected travelers | Usually two doses 28 days apart; some adults can use days 0 and 7; finish at least 1 week before travel |
| Hepatitis B | Product-dependent: some adult schedules take 1 month; others take about 6 months |
| Accelerated combined hepatitis A and B for eligible adults | Days 0, 7, and 21–30, followed by a 12-month booster |
| MMR when two doses are needed | Doses at least 28 days apart; aim to be fully vaccinated at least 2 weeks before travel |
These are not instructions for choosing or administering a vaccine yourself. Age, pregnancy, immune status, allergies, medicines, prior doses, destination, activities, and departure date can change the appropriate recommendation.
Start With the Appointment, Not the Needle
A travel-vaccine visit is really an itinerary and medical-history review. The clinician should not simply hand every international traveler the same list of injections.
Expect questions about:
- Every country and region on the itinerary
- Stopovers and airport transits
- Departure date and length of stay
- Urban, rural, and remote travel
- Hotels, private homes, camping, or basic accommodations
- Food, water, animal, mosquito, and tick exposure
- Work, medical care, volunteering, or disaster response
- Pregnancy or plans for pregnancy
- Age and chronic medical conditions
- Medicines that affect the immune system
- Previous vaccine reactions and allergies
- Routine and travel-vaccine records
Bring the full itinerary even if part of it seems unimportant. A long airport transit or a side trip through a yellow fever risk country can affect an entry rule elsewhere. Likewise, the season and the type of activity can change whether a vaccine such as Japanese encephalitis is worth considering.
Required, Recommended, and Routine Vaccines Are Different
These three categories are often mixed together, but they answer different questions.
Required for entry
A required vaccine is connected to a country’s entry rules. The best-known example is yellow fever documentation. Certain destinations may also impose meningococcal or polio requirements for particular travelers or itineraries.
An entry requirement is not a prediction of personal medical risk. A country may require proof because the traveler recently passed through another country with disease transmission. Requirements can change, so verify the current rule for the passport, origin, transit route, destination, and travel date.
Recommended because of travel risk
A clinician may recommend hepatitis A, typhoid, rabies pre-exposure vaccination, Japanese encephalitis, or another vaccine based on likely exposure. These vaccines may not be legally required at the border, but they can still be medically important.
Routine vaccines
International travel is also a reason to check vaccines normally received at home. CDC lists routine vaccines relevant to travelers, including measles-mumps-rubella, influenza, COVID-19, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis, varicella, polio, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal, and others depending on age and health history.
Routine does not mean unimportant. Measles occurs in many parts of the world, and CDC advises international travelers to be fully vaccinated according to its current recommendations.
Why Four to Six Weeks Is a Good Starting Point
Four to six weeks provides room for several separate clocks.
Appointment availability
Travel clinics can fill during spring, summer, school breaks, and pilgrimage seasons. Yellow fever vaccination must be performed by an authorized center in the United States, so the nearest ordinary pharmacy or primary care office may not provide it.
Vaccine schedules
Some vaccines require more than one dose. The schedule may be seven days, one month, six months, or longer depending on the vaccine and product.
Time for protection to develop
Receiving a dose and reaching the intended immune response are not the same moment. Each vaccine has its own timing. Yellow fever documentation after a first dose, for example, does not become valid until 10 days after vaccination.
Record problems
People often discover that an old card is missing, a childhood series is incomplete, or a record uses a maiden name or previous healthcare system. Finding reliable documentation can take longer than the appointment itself.
Follow-up decisions
A clinician may need to check a medication, consult a specialist, discuss a contraindication, or arrange a medical waiver. Starting early prevents that decision from being squeezed into the final days before departure.
Timing for Common Travel Vaccines
The following sections explain why the answer can range from one visit to months. They describe current U.S. guidance for planning purposes; the clinician must determine what applies to an individual traveler.
Yellow Fever
Yellow fever vaccine is typically a single dose for people for whom it is recommended or required and who can receive it safely. The timing issue is unusually strict when proof is needed: an International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, or ICVP, from a primary vaccination becomes valid 10 days after the vaccination date.
The vaccine and certificate must come from an authorized yellow fever vaccination center. The completed card must be properly signed and validated with the center’s uniform stamp. CDC does not issue replacement ICVPs and does not keep individual vaccination records.
Under current international rules, a properly completed yellow fever certificate is generally valid for the vaccinated person’s lifetime. Certain travelers may need individualized advice about additional doses because of medical circumstances or a higher-risk itinerary.
Yellow fever vaccine is live. It has specific contraindications and precautions, including considerations involving age, immune conditions, pregnancy, breastfeeding, thymus disorders, and severe allergy to vaccine components. This is one vaccine for which a specialist conversation may be as important as the schedule.
If the certificate will not yet be valid on the entry date, the traveler may face problems such as denied entry, quarantine, or vaccination at the point of entry, depending on the destination’s rules. Buying the ticket first does not override the 10-day certificate period.
Typhoid
Typhoid vaccination in the United States is available in injectable and oral forms, and their schedules differ.
The inactivated injectable vaccine is given as one dose at least two weeks before travel. The live oral vaccine is a four-capsule series taken on alternating days; the final capsule should be completed at least one week before travel.
The oral vaccine has storage, medication, age, and medical restrictions. It must be refrigerated, and antibiotics and certain other medicines can interfere with it. A traveler should not improvise the timing or switch products without clinical advice.
Neither typhoid vaccine provides complete protection. Safe food and water practices remain important even after vaccination.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A vaccination may be recommended for susceptible travelers to destinations with high or intermediate levels of infection. Single-antigen U.S. vaccines use a two-dose series, with the second dose commonly scheduled six months or more after the first depending on the product.
That long interval does not mean every trip must be postponed for six months. The first dose is important, and CDC advises susceptible travelers for relevant destinations to be vaccinated or receive immune globulin before departure. The exact plan can differ for people leaving very soon, older adults, immunocompromised travelers, people with chronic liver disease or other chronic conditions, and those who cannot receive a vaccine component.
A clinician may discuss vaccine and immune globulin together in certain last-minute or higher-risk situations. That choice depends on age, medical history, timing, and destination, so a generic article should not tell every traveler to use the same approach.
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B timing depends heavily on the vaccine product and the traveler’s age.
Some adult hepatitis B vaccination uses two doses separated by about one month. Other products use a three-dose series over approximately six months. The combined hepatitis A and B vaccine for eligible adults has a standard schedule and an accelerated option.
The accelerated combined schedule uses doses on days 0, 7, and 21–30, followed by a booster at 12 months. That schedule should not be shortened or substituted casually. The clinician must decide whether it is appropriate and ensure the later booster is not forgotten after the trip.
If the full series cannot be completed before departure, the traveler should still ask what can be started, what protection can reasonably be expected, and where the remaining doses will be completed.
Rabies Pre-Exposure Vaccination
Rabies pre-exposure vaccination is not recommended for every traveler. It may be considered for people whose activities and destinations create a meaningful chance of animal exposure, especially where reliable post-exposure treatment may be difficult to obtain.
The current U.S. pre-exposure schedule for travelers for whom it is indicated uses two doses on days 0 and 7. Certain people with sustained risk beyond the initial period need additional follow-up, such as a titer or booster, according to their risk category.
Pre-exposure vaccination does not eliminate the need for medical care after a bite, scratch, or other possible rabies exposure. A previously vaccinated traveler still needs prompt wound cleaning and post-exposure vaccine on the recommended schedule. The advantage is that the post-exposure regimen differs and rabies immune globulin is generally not used for someone previously vaccinated according to recognized guidance.
Because rabies is almost always fatal after symptoms begin, animal exposure is not a “wait until I get home” issue. Travelers should know in advance how to seek urgent care at the destination.
Japanese Encephalitis
Japanese encephalitis vaccine is recommended or considered for selected travelers based on destination, season, duration, rural exposure, outdoor activity, and accommodations. The risk is very low for most short-term travelers whose trips are limited to urban areas.
The U.S. vaccine is a two-dose series. The usual spacing is 28 days. Adults aged 18 through 65 may receive the second dose from 7 to 28 days after the first. Children and adults older than 65 follow the age-appropriate schedule, which generally keeps the doses 28 days apart. The final dose should be completed at least one week before travel.
Vaccination does not replace mosquito precautions. The itinerary may make bite prevention more important than the vaccine itself for a low-risk traveler.
MMR for Measles Protection
CDC recommends that international travelers be fully vaccinated against measles. If a traveler needs two MMR doses, the doses are separated by at least 28 days. The goal is to be fully vaccinated at least two weeks before departure.
If the trip is less than two weeks away and the traveler is not protected, CDC still advises getting an indicated dose rather than assuming it is too late. Infants, children, teenagers, and adults have different recommendations, and a travel dose given to an infant before the first birthday does not replace the later routine series.
MMR is a live vaccine and is not appropriate for everyone. Pregnancy and severe immunosuppression require special consideration.
Other Vaccines
Depending on the traveler and itinerary, a consultation may cover meningococcal disease, polio, cholera, tick-borne encephalitis, mpox, influenza, COVID-19, or other vaccines. These are not a universal travel package.
Entry rules for meningococcal or polio vaccination can be specific to a destination, event, origin, length of stay, or recent travel history. Use official destination guidance current for the actual travel date.
A Practical Planning Timeline
Six months or more before departure
This is an excellent time to locate records and begin a standard multi-dose series. It also provides time to coordinate vaccination around pregnancy plans, immune-suppressing treatment, or a complex medical condition.
Two to three months before departure
Most travelers still have comfortable room for a consultation and routine scheduling. Book the appointment now rather than waiting for a reminder from an airline or tour company.
Four to six weeks before departure
This is the CDC’s recommended appointment window. Bring the itinerary and records. Many common needs can be completed or well underway during this period.
Two to three weeks before departure
There is still meaningful time. Injectable typhoid can meet its recommended two-week interval, MMR may have time to develop protection, and a clinician can review single-dose and accelerated options.
Ten days before arrival
This is the critical validity point for a primary yellow fever vaccination certificate. Count from the date of vaccination to the date the certificate must be valid, which may be arrival or another point in the itinerary.
One week before departure
Some schedules may still be possible, including the two-dose rabies pre-exposure schedule on days 0 and 7 and the accelerated Japanese encephalitis schedule for eligible adults—provided the clinician recommends them and the final timing requirements can be met.
The oral typhoid series must be planned carefully because the capsules are taken on alternating days and the last dose should be finished at least one week before travel.
Less than one week before departure
Make the appointment anyway. The clinician can identify what is still worthwhile, what cannot be completed, what documentation will not be valid in time, and which non-vaccine precautions matter most.
Do not accept a false certificate or an invented vaccine date. A last-minute schedule should be honest and medically valid.
What Last-Minute Travelers Should Do
Bring a complete itinerary
Do not mention only the final destination. Include transit countries, rural excursions, cruises, border crossings, and the order of travel.
Bring every vaccine record available
Old paper cards, state immunization records, pharmacy histories, military records, school records, and patient portals may prevent unnecessary repeat doses. Do not rely solely on memory when documentation is required.
Ask what can still help
Some indicated vaccines are worth starting even when the series will continue after the trip. Others have an approved accelerated schedule. A clinician can explain how much protection to expect and which behaviors remain essential.
Discuss medicines and non-vaccine risks
Malaria prevention often involves prescription medicine rather than a travel vaccine. Travelers may also need advice about diarrhea treatment, altitude, motion sickness, blood clots, heat, insect bites, animal exposure, and access to medical care.
Reconsider avoidable high-risk activities
If there is no time to complete an indicated vaccine, changing a rural excursion, animal activity, or remote portion of the trip may reduce risk. The best last-minute solution is not always another injection.
What Can Delay Travel Vaccination?
No appointment at the appropriate clinic
An ordinary vaccine provider may not stock specialized products. Yellow fever must be obtained from an authorized vaccination center in the United States.
The vaccine is not in stock
Travel vaccines may require advance ordering. Call before the appointment and ask whether the clinic has the product and serves the traveler’s age group.
Missing records
The provider may need to determine which doses are documented and whether a series is complete. A certificate used for an entry requirement must be valid, not merely remembered.
A Medical Precaution or Contraindication
Pregnancy, immune suppression, age, severe allergies, prior reactions, and certain medical conditions can change the risk-benefit decision. Yellow fever deserves particular care because it is a live vaccine and has rare but serious potential adverse events.
Vaccine-spacing rules
Many vaccines can be given at the same visit. However, certain live vaccines, immune globulin products, antibiotics, antivirals, and other medicines can affect spacing or response. The clinician needs the full medication and recent-treatment history.
Missed follow-up doses
For most vaccine series, a longer-than-recommended interval does not mean the entire series must be restarted; the next dose is generally given at the next opportunity. Pre-exposure rabies is an important exception requiring professional guidance when a substantial delay occurs.
Where Can You Get Travel Vaccines?
Possible providers include:
- Travel medicine clinics
- Primary care practices
- Public health departments
- Pharmacies authorized to provide the needed vaccine
- Health systems with infectious-disease or travel-health services
- Authorized yellow fever vaccination centers
Availability depends on state law, age, vaccine, and location. A pharmacy that gives routine vaccines may not conduct a complete itinerary-based consultation or stock rabies, Japanese encephalitis, or yellow fever vaccine.
CDC provides a destination tool, a general clinic finder, and a separate registry of authorized yellow fever centers. Call before traveling to the clinic to confirm the service, appointment requirements, cost, and vaccine supply.
What Happens During the Appointment?
The clinician reviews the itinerary, health history, allergies, medicines, prior vaccines, and time available. You may receive several vaccines at the same visit when medically appropriate.
The visit may also cover:
- Malaria prevention
- Food and water safety
- Mosquito and tick protection
- Rabies avoidance and post-exposure planning
- Travelers’ diarrhea
- Altitude and heat
- Motion sickness
- Blood-clot risk during long travel
- Medication documentation
- Travel insurance and medical evacuation planning
If follow-up doses are needed, schedule them before leaving the office. Put the dates in the calendar immediately and note whether a dose must be completed before travel or can be continued afterward.
Can Several Travel Vaccines Be Given at Once?
Often, yes. Administering multiple indicated vaccines during one visit can be appropriate and is common in travel medicine. It can save time and reduce the risk of missing a dose.
That does not mean every possible combination is interchangeable. Injectable live vaccines that are not given on the same day generally require spacing. Oral live vaccines and certain medicines have their own rules. Immune globulin can affect the response to some live vaccines.
Tell the clinician about every recent vaccine, blood product, immune globulin treatment, antibiotic, antiviral, and immune-suppressing medicine. Let the provider build the schedule instead of spacing doses based on an internet calendar.
Do You Need Proof of Travel Vaccinations?
Sometimes. Yellow fever proof is recorded on the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. The card should show the traveler’s name as it appears on the passport, the vaccination date, provider information, signature, and the authorized center’s stamp.
Carry the original when the itinerary requires it and keep a secure copy separately. A phone photo may help with record recovery, but it may not replace the original document for entry.
Other destinations or events can have different proof requirements. Check official destination and event sources again shortly before departure because health regulations change.
Do not confuse a clinic receipt, patient-portal entry, or general immunization printout with a properly validated yellow fever certificate.
Side Effects and When to Seek Help
Common vaccine reactions can include soreness, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, or a mild fever. The expected reactions and their timing vary by vaccine.
Ask the provider what is normal, what medicine can be used if needed, and which symptoms require medical attention. Seek emergency help for signs of a severe allergic reaction, such as difficulty breathing, facial or throat swelling, widespread hives, severe weakness, or collapse.
Some vaccines have rare serious risks that require individualized screening. Yellow fever vaccination is a clear example. The decision should compare the destination’s disease risk, any legal requirement, the traveler’s medical risks, and the possibility of changing the itinerary or using a medical waiver when appropriate.
Travel Vaccines for Children
Children do not simply receive a smaller version of the adult schedule. Minimum ages, dose amounts, routine series, early travel doses, and follow-up requirements vary.
For example, CDC recommends an early MMR dose for certain international travelers aged 6–11 months, but that dose does not replace the routine doses after the first birthday. Yellow fever, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, and hepatitis vaccines each have age-specific guidance.
Book pediatric travel advice early. Bring the child’s complete record and the exact itinerary. If a clinic does not vaccinate children, ask for an appropriate pediatric or public-health referral rather than waiting until the final week.
Pregnancy, Immune Conditions, and Other Medical Concerns
Pregnant travelers, people planning pregnancy, older adults, infants, and immunocompromised travelers may need extra planning.
Live vaccines can be contraindicated or require special risk-benefit decisions. Pregnancy is a precaution for yellow fever vaccination, while several other live vaccines are generally contraindicated during pregnancy. Severely immunocompromised people generally should not receive live vaccines, and their response to inactivated vaccines may be reduced.
Do not stop immune-suppressing medicine or delay necessary treatment just to fit a travel-vaccine schedule without speaking to the treating clinician. In some cases, postponing or changing the trip is safer than attempting vaccination during a period of high medical risk.
Are Travel Vaccines Required for Every International Trip?
No. Many destinations have no special vaccine requirement for a traveler arriving directly from the United States. The same destination might impose a yellow fever requirement on someone arriving from or transiting through a country with yellow fever risk.
Even when nothing is required for entry, routine and recommended vaccines may still matter. A border rule protects a country’s public-health interest; a clinical recommendation considers the traveler’s health risk.
Use the CDC destination page for health recommendations and current yellow fever information, then verify legal entry rules through the destination’s official government or diplomatic source. Airline or tour-company reminders can be useful, but they should not be the sole authority.
How to Avoid Common Planning Mistakes
Waiting for the visa before booking the clinic
If the itinerary is reasonably likely, the vaccine consultation can often begin while documents are processing. Ask about cancellation policies, but do not lose the entire four-to-six-week window unnecessarily.
Assuming a previous trip used the same rules
Requirements, outbreaks, medical history, and itineraries change. A vaccine not recommended for a city trip may be considered for a later rural stay.
Thinking one dose means the series is finished
Some first doses provide useful short-term protection, but the later dose may be necessary for full or long-term protection. Put post-trip boosters on the calendar.
Treating malaria pills as vaccines
Malaria prevention in U.S. travel practice often uses prescription medicine plus mosquito avoidance. The start date varies by drug, so it belongs in the same early consultation.
Ignoring routine vaccines
Travel clinics are not only for exotic diseases. Measles, influenza, tetanus, COVID-19, and other routine vaccines may be more relevant to a particular trip.
Assuming vaccination removes all risk
Typhoid vaccination does not replace safe food and water practices. Japanese encephalitis and yellow fever vaccination do not replace mosquito protection. Rabies pre-exposure vaccination does not eliminate the need for urgent post-exposure care.
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- How Long Does It Take to Get Travel Insurance?
Frequently Asked Questions
How early should I get travel vaccines?
Arrange the travel-health appointment four to six weeks before departure when possible. Start earlier if the trip may require a lengthy series or complicated medical planning.
Is it too late to get travel vaccines one week before leaving?
Not necessarily. Some useful steps may still be possible, and a clinician can discuss accelerated schedules and non-vaccine precautions. Yellow fever proof after a first vaccination will not be valid until 10 days have passed.
Can I get all my travel vaccines in one appointment?
Many indicated vaccines can be given during the same visit, but multi-dose series require follow-up. Medical conditions, live-vaccine spacing, immune globulin, antibiotics, and other medicines can affect the plan.
How long does yellow fever vaccination take?
The vaccine is generally one appointment, but a primary yellow fever certificate becomes valid 10 days after vaccination. In the United States, use an authorized yellow fever center.
How long does the typhoid vaccine take?
The injection is one dose given at least two weeks before travel. The oral vaccine is four capsules taken on alternating days, with the last capsule completed at least one week before travel.
How long does pre-travel rabies vaccination take?
For travelers for whom it is indicated, the current U.S. pre-exposure series uses two doses on days 0 and 7. Vaccinated travelers still need prompt medical treatment after a possible exposure.
Can a pharmacy provide travel vaccines?
Some pharmacies provide routine and selected travel vaccines. Availability depends on state law, age, staffing, and stock. Yellow fever must be given at an authorized yellow fever center in the United States.
Do I need travel vaccines for Europe?
The answer depends on the countries, activities, season, health history, and routine-vaccine status. Check each destination rather than assuming an entire continent has one recommendation.
Do I need proof at the airport?
Some itineraries require official documentation, particularly a valid yellow fever ICVP. Proof may be checked by airline personnel, border authorities, or other officials. Verify the rule for the complete itinerary.
What if I lost my yellow fever card?
Contact the authorized clinic that administered the vaccine and ask whether it can reissue the certificate from its records. CDC does not keep individual vaccination records. Do not create a replacement card yourself.
Do children need travel vaccines?
Sometimes. Recommendations depend on age, routine vaccination, destination, and activities. Some early travel doses do not count toward the later routine series, so pediatric guidance is important.
Can pregnant travelers receive travel vaccines?
Some vaccines can be used when indicated, while live vaccines may be contraindicated or require an individualized risk-benefit decision. Pregnancy is a specific precaution for yellow fever vaccination. Discuss the itinerary with prenatal and travel-health clinicians.
Do I have to restart a vaccine series if I missed a dose?
Usually not. CDC says extended intervals generally do not require restarting most vaccine series. Pre-exposure rabies has special guidance when a substantial delay occurs, so consult a clinician.
Are travel vaccines covered by insurance?
Coverage varies by plan, vaccine, provider, and whether the dose is considered routine or travel-specific. Ask the insurer and clinic about the vaccine, consultation, administration, and documentation charges before the visit.
Can I travel immediately after vaccination?
The medical and legal answer depends on the vaccine. Some protection takes time to develop, and a yellow fever certificate after primary vaccination is not valid for 10 days. Side effects may also make travel uncomfortable even when no legal waiting period applies.
Do vaccines replace food, water, insect, and animal precautions?
No. Vaccines reduce specific risks but do not provide perfect protection. Follow destination-appropriate precautions throughout the trip.
Quick Summary
Travel vaccination can take one appointment, a week, a month, or several months. The CDC recommends a travel-health appointment four to six weeks before departure because the correct schedule depends on the destination, itinerary, existing records, age, health, and vaccine.
Important examples include a 10-day wait before a primary yellow fever certificate becomes valid, at least two weeks for injectable typhoid, a four-capsule oral typhoid schedule completed at least one week before travel, rabies pre-exposure doses on days 0 and 7, and a two-dose Japanese encephalitis series whose final dose should be completed at least one week before departure.
Last-minute travelers should still seek care. A clinician can identify useful vaccines, valid accelerated schedules, medications, and risk-reduction steps. Bring the full itinerary and vaccination records, and verify legal entry rules close to departure.
Sources & References
- CDC Travelers’ Health: Travel vaccines and planning ahead
- CDC Travelers’ Health: Destination-specific health guidance
- CDC Travelers’ Health: Last-minute travelers
- CDC Yellow Book: Last-minute travelers
- CDC Travelers’ Health: International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis
- CDC Travelers’ Health: Find a clinic
- CDC: Typhoid Vaccine Information Statement
- CDC Yellow Book: Hepatitis A
- CDC: Hepatitis B vaccination
- CDC: Rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis guidance
- CDC: Japanese encephalitis vaccine
- CDC: Measles planning for international travel
- CDC Yellow Book: Vaccination and immunoprophylaxis—general principles
- CDC Yellow Book: Immunocompromised travelers
- CDC: Vaccination guidelines during pregnancy
Editorial Review
Reviewed by Claire Bennett, Managing Editor
Last reviewed: August 2026
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