Travelers'

Health

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November 2024

Heading Home Healthy

A free, CDC-supported program that provides resources to help travelers stay healthy when they return home to visit friends and relatives.

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Travelers' Rapid Health Information Portal (TRhIP)

Health advice for safe travel based on recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Travel Healthy App

An app for travelers to monitor health and stay organized. Includes a malaria medication reminder tool, and location-based travel notices. iOS | Android

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Featured Topic

Marburg


Marburg virus disease (Marburg) is a rare but deadly disease spread by infected people and animals, and contaminated objects. There is no treatment and no vaccine.


There is a current outbreak of Marburg in the Republic of Rwanda.


All travelers should reconsider nonessential travel to Rwanda.


Health Alert - U.S. Embassy Kigali, Rwanda

Health information for travelers to Rwanda

Travel health and medical evacuation insurance

Traveling to the United States from Rwanda

CDC Travel Health Notices

Level 3 - reconsider nonessential travel

Marburg in Rwanda


Level 2 - practice enhanced precautions

Oropouche in Cuba

Clade I Mpox in Central and Eastern Africa

Zika in the State of Maharashtra, India

Global Polio

Yellow Fever in Nigeria

Diphtheria in Guinea, Niger, and Nigeria

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