Travel Vaccines for Thailand

Recommended Vaccines for Thailand

✅ All Travellers

• Hepatitis A — Risk throughout Thailand. Recommended for all travellers.
• COVID-19, Influenza, MMR, Routine vaccines — Ensure all are current.

⚠️ Most Travellers

• Typhoid Fever — Recommended for most travellers, especially those eating street food.
• Hepatitis B — Recommended for travellers receiving medical care (including medical tourism) and long-stay visitors.
• Dengue — Significant risk throughout Thailand including Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, and the islands. No dengue vaccine is currently available in Canada — bite prevention is essential.

🔵 Some Travellers

• Rabies — Thailand is high-risk for rabies. Pre-exposure vaccination strongly recommended for rural travellers, children, and anyone around animals. Stray dogs are extremely common.
• Japanese Encephalitis — Recommended for extended stays (1+ months) in rural agricultural areas, especially during the rainy season.
• Cholera — Consider for travellers visiting areas with poor sanitation.
• Malaria prophylaxis — Risk only in rural, forested border areas. No risk in Bangkok, Chiang Mai city, Phuket, Koh Samui, or most tourist islands.
• Yellow Fever — Proof required if arriving from an endemic country.

Travellers’ Diarrhea

Risk: High — including in hotels and tourist areas. Your pharmacist will advise and may prescribe a standby antibiotic.

Malaria

Risk concentrated in rural, forested border areas only. No risk in Bangkok, Chiang Mai city, Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Krabi, or most tourist beach areas.

Other Health Risks

Dengue & Zika

Dengue is a major risk year-round in all popular tourist areas. Zika low risk — pregnant travellers should seek counselling.

Medical Care

Bangkok has world-class private hospitals (Bumrungrad, BNH, Samitivej). Care in rural areas and smaller islands is limited. Emergency: 1669 (ambulance).