CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel contains the US government's most current travel health guidelines, including pre-travel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. 

Vaccine Information

• Destination Pages
• Travel Vaccine Quick Guide
• Routine Immunization Schedules
• Vaccine Information Statements (VIS)
• Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Pink Book)
• Vaccine Administration (Pink Book)
• The Vaccination Records: Finding, Interpreting, and Recording

Patient Care Tools

• Pre-Travel Quick Guide: Highlights topics to discuss with patients traveling abroad.
• Destination Pages: Find travel health recommendations by country.
• Providers' Rapid Evaluation Portal (PREP): A free interactive clinical tool to guide you through pre-travel consultations with patients traveling abroad.
• Find a Clinic: Links to places you can get vaccines and medicine before you travle, including local health departments, travel mendicine clinics, or yellow fever vaccination clinics.
• Factsheets for Travelers: One page information sheets for travelers with special needs and information for different types of travel.

Disease Resources

• Zika Interactive Map: Check if Zika is a concern at a particular destination.
• Yellow Fever & Malaria Information by Country: Country-specific yellow fever vaccine requirements and recommendations and malaria transmission information and prophylaxis recommendations.
• Disease directory: One pagers for diseases that can affect travelers.
• Travel Notices: Get the latest country-specific information on disease outbreaks, special events or gatherings, and natural disasters affecting travelers' health.

Clinical Updates

Patient Symptom Evaluation Tools

• Post-Travel Full Evaluation: Most travel infections become apparent soon after travel, but incubation periods vary, and some syndromes can present months to years after infection. When evaluating a patient with a probable travel-related illness, the clinician should consider the items summarized below.
  • Destination Pages: Provide vaccine preventable and other diseases that should be considered in a recent traveler who is ill.
  • Fever in Returned Travelers
  • Persistent Travelers’ Diarrhea
  • Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Returned Travelers

Contact Us

• CDC Contact Information for Clinicians: Contact information for CDC assistance and information about infectious diseases.
• Clinical Consultative Services: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene provides a list of physicians who offer clinical consultative service in Tropical Medicine, Medical Parasitology and Travelers' Health.

• US State Department Travel Site: Information includes safety and security in destinations, passports, visas, and entry/exit requirements
• US Customs and Border Protection: Information about what you can and cannot bring back from your trip abroad
• US Embassies: Helpful in-country contacts during your travel
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA): Information airport security checks
• CIA World Factbook: Background information about countries around the world