Cholera is present. Oral cholera vaccination and safe food and water practices are recommended.

Disease guide

Definition

An acute bacterial intestinal disease that can cause death within hours if untreated.

Symptoms

Ranges from mild cases with diarrhoea only to a severe sudden form with profuse painless watery stools and sometimes vomiting, leading to fluid loss, rapid dehydration and kidney failure.

Incubation period

5 days.

Prevention

Oral cholera vaccination is advised, two doses 14 days apart before travel to affected countries. Observe safe food and water practices.

Precautions

Oral cholera vaccination is advised, two doses 14 days apart before travel to affected countries. Observe safe food and water practices.

Mpox (monkeypox) is present in this country. Follow the personal-protection precautions below.

Disease guide

Definition

A rare zoonotic viral disease (transmitted from animals to humans); its symptoms resemble those once seen in smallpox patients but are less severe.

Symptoms

Fever, severe headache, swollen lymph nodes, back and muscle pain and intense weakness, followed within 1 to 3 days by a rash that usually starts on the face and spreads to other parts of the body.

Incubation period

21 days.

Prevention

Observe personal hygiene and avoid contact with infected people or animals. No mandatory vaccination.

Precautions

Observe personal hygiene and avoid contact with infected people or animals. No mandatory vaccination.