Health
Health
Special Precautions Certificate Required?
Yellow Fever No 1
Cholera 2 No
Typhoid and Polio 3 N/A
Malaria 4 N/A

Healthcare : Health insurance is recommended. There is no reciprocal health agreement with the UK. Basic medical facilities exist in main cities but there are few outside them. Medical care is provided free of charge to those who cannot afford to pay. For more information, see the Health appendix.

Note : 1
A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travellers coming within six days from infected areas.

2
Following WHO guidelines issued in 1973, a cholera vaccination certificate is not a condition of entry to the Syrian Arab Republic. Up-to-date advice should be sought before deciding whether precautions should include vaccination, as medical opinion is divided over its effectiveness; see the Health appendix.

3
Vaccination against typhoid is advised.

4
Malaria risk, exclusively in the benign vivax form, exists along the northern border, in the El Hassaka province, from May through October. 

    

      

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