Venezuela - 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
Chikungunya, Dandy fever, Hiv - aids, Malaria
Diseases - infections risks
Medium
Food and beverages

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.