Visiting family and friends in foreign countries

Seek advice from your GP or a doctor at a travel clinic, even if you are travelling very soon.

• Persons who have already had malaria are not immune.
• Protect yourself against mosquito bites from dusk until sunrise. 
• Take preventive malaria tablets if recommended, even if your family or friends that live locally do not take these tablets and make sure you start before departure. 
• Take into consideration that malaria medication may not be of reliable quality in some countries. 

• Eat only foods that have been safely prepared and do not drink unpurified water.
• Ask your doctor if typhoid fever vaccination is recommended for you.

Always use condoms during sexual contact with a new partner.

Avoid contact with mammals in countries where rabies is present in pets, such as dogs and cats.

If you have been in close contact with individuals who had a cough in a country where tuberculosis is common, have a tuberculosis test performed two to three months after you return.

Check the health risks at your destination.