Myanmar - Health & Safety
- Recommended vaccinations
- None
- 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.
- Diseases - infections
- Amebiasis, Cholera, Dandy fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Tubercolosis, Typhus
- Diseases - infections risks
- High
Bacteriological and virological epidemics connected with food are more and more frequent, due to poor hygiene. As a precaution, we recommend to eat bird meat, eggs and chicken only when well cooked and avoid direct contact with alive or dead birds due to the risk of contracting bird flu.