Vaccines to travel to Costa Rica

For travel to Costa Rica, as in most countries in the Caribbean and Central America, it is mandatory to apply the yellow fever vaccine for all those travelers coming from areas of risk of transmission (within the countries considered at risk we find Angola, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, Gambia, Nigeria, and Sudan).

Travel to Costa Rica

The presentation of the international vaccination certificate will not be obligatory for those under nine months of age, for those over sixty years of age, pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Also, for travel to Costa Rica there are also a number of recommended vaccines such as typhoid vaccine, which is recommended if we are going to visit populated areas where poor hygienic conditions and vaccinations against hepatitis A, hepatitis B and diphtheria tetanus may occur.

Vaccinations for travel to Costa Rica

Finally, being a country that has had some outbreaks of diseases such as dengue and malaria, especially in the provinces of tropical areas with extensive vegetation such as Limón, it is recommended to apply these vaccines as a preventive measure.

By: María Sánchez Montes

Updated on 11/06/2012

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Comments

Joelle garcia 28/07/2013

Can someone tell me if it is necessary to get the yellow fever vaccine for Costa Rica if one travels from Europe and makes a one-hour transit in Colombia? Thank you.

Answering Four Years Later 30/04/2017

No.

Pablo Salazar 11/03/2013

Yes, I would like all of Central America to be united in a single country like the European Union because Central America, despite being small nations, Mexico wants to continue expanding towards the south. Guatemala has already done it in the past, learning from when the US broke them in half and in revenge they want to do it with small countries and in a nutshell, Mexican culture does not serve itself, as it is decadent, corrupt and violent, in which maintain an ego as if they were Spanish, the Aztecs are stealing territory from countries smaller than him. In its military archives is expanding to all of Central and South America, which would bring a worthless Mexican peso and an absurd culture, since they are not the best of Latin America.