International Travel
Information for Providers
As a health care provider, you are the source of accurate and timely information for your patients about health risks. Educating your patients before they travel internationally can help prevent illness associated with international travel. The list of resources below should be used to assist you in making appropriate recommendations to maintain your patient’s health while traveling.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web Site
This site allows you to choose a destination and provides health considerations for each destination, including immunizations that are required or recommended, malaria risk levels, recent disease outbreaks, and tips for staying healthy while traveling to that destination.
International Travel Clinics (Yellow Fever Vaccine Providers) in Indiana
This site provides contact information, by county, for International Travel Clinics in Indiana.
Map of Counties with Number of Providers Eligible to Administer Yellow Fever Vaccine
This site provides a map indicating the number of International Travel Clinics in Indiana counties.
U.S. Department of State
This site allows you to search by destination to determine public health and safety considerations, entry/exit requirements, documentation requirements, and embassy information. You can also find current travel warnings and travel alerts issued by the U.S. Department of State based on new or ongoing health and safety risks of traveling to a particular destination.
World Health Organization
This site provides health risk information by destination and allows you to see information about ongoing or recent disease outbreaks.
Travel Immunization Resources
Vaccine Information Statements
Yellow Fever Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) – also available in other languages at http://www.immunize.org/vis/vis_yfever.asp
Yellow Fever Vaccine Package Insert (including Storage and Handling Requirements)
2002 ACIP Recommendations for Yellow Fever Vaccine
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
U.S. Government Bookstore – for the purchase of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis as Approved by the World Health Organization
This page last updated on August 17, 2009.
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