Venezuela - 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
- Chikungunya, Dandy fever, Hiv - aids, Malaria
- Diseases - infections risks
- Medium
In some periods occur some cases of "ciguatera", a poisoning, caused by contaminated fish by a toxin present in many microorganism. Generally it is caused by big-size fishes, they can originate gastrointestinal, neurological and cardiovascular diseases, even if they are well-cooked.
Moreover, we suggest to only drink mineral water and bottled drinks, without adding ice and avoid raw food.
