El Salvador - Health & Safety

Vaccinations
Recommended vaccinations
None
Medicines
Availability medicines
Medium

We suggest to bring always a small travel pharmacy and to stipulate a health insurance which covers medical expenditures, the eventual airplane emergency repatriation or transfer to another country.

Cautions
Diseases - infections
Amebiasis, Chikungunya, Cholera, Dandy fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Leptospirosis, Malaria, Brain fever, Rabies, Typhus, Tubercolosis
Diseases - infections risks
Medium
Food and beverages

It is recommended to drink bottled water without adding ice, using running water only if previously boliled and to wash raw vegetables with specific products or with bicarbonate before eating them.