Travel Immunizations
If you plan to travel outside the country, you may need immunizations to protect yourself against diseases that aren’t common in the United States.
Traveler’s Health:
Learn more about the destination you are traveling to.
- Health Notices
- Vaccines & Medicines
- Non-Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Additional Healthy Safety Tips
- Packing List
- After Your Trip
2024 CDC Yellow Book
The CDC Health Information for International Travel (commonly called the Yellow Book) is published every two years as a reference for health professionals providing care to international travelers and is a useful resource for anyone interested in staying healthy abroad. The fully revised and updated CDC Yellow Book 2024 codifies the U.S. government’s most current travel health guidelines, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts.
The 2024 Yellow Book includes important travel medicine updates:
- Precautions for international travelers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
- Updates on practicing travel medicine in a virtual environment
- New standalone vaccine tables for bacterial and viral diseases
- Updated travel health recommendations for highly allergic, immunocompromised, and chronically ill travelers, travelers with substance use disorders, and medical tourists
- Country-specific mosquito avoidance, yellow fever vaccine, and malaria prevention recommendations
Access the Yellow Book Online
Related Links
Find other travel health information on the CDC Travelers’ Health website, including: