Mauritania - Health & Safety

Vaccinations
Recommended vaccinations
None
Medicines
Availability medicines
Low

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
Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Yellow jack, Malaria, Tetanus
Diseases - infections risks
High
Food and beverages

We suggest to drink only mineral water and bottled drinks without ice; use boiled or mineral water also for oral hygiene. In addition, we suggest to only eat well-cooked foods and avoid raw vegetables and bad preserved products.