Mexico Travel Health Information

Read below for travel health advice on Mexico from the MDtravelhealth channel on Red Planet Travel.

Page Sections

  1. Summary
  2. Page Drop Box

Are you a doctor or medical professional with knowledge of the situation in Mexico  Why not apply to contribute to this page? You will get a link and referrals to your clinic from this site.

Would you like to Edit this page? Login or Sign up!
  • Summary You can't Edit

    1

    All travelers should visit either their personal physician or a travel health clinic 4-8 weeks before departure.

    Malaria: Prophylaxis with chloroquine, Lariam (mefloquine), Malarone (atovaquone/proguanil), doxycyline, or primaquine is recommended for only for a small number of areas not usually visited by travelers, including Chiapas; rural areas in the states of Nayarit, Oaxaca, and Sinaloa; and an area between 24°N and 28°N latitude and 106°W and 110°W longitude, which lies in parts of Chihuahua, Durango, and Sonora. There is no malaria risk in the major resorts along the Pacific and Gulf Coasts or along the United States-Mexico border.

    Vaccinations:

    Hepatitis A Recommended for all travelers
    Typhoid Recommended for all travelers
    Hepatitis B For travelers who will have intimate contact with local residents or potentially need blood transfusions or injections, especially if visiting for more than six months
    Rabies For travelers spending a lot of time outdoors, or at high risk for animal bites, or involved in any activities that might bring them into direct contact with bats
    Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) Two doses recommended for all travelers born after 1956, if not previously given
    Tetanus-diphtheria Revaccination recommended every 10 years
Back to Page Index

Page drop box for MDth Mexico

Been to Mexico recently? What is the current health situation there? Do you have any information on the place. Is the information on this page as you found it?

You can earn Reputation score by joining our community and also enrol on the TravelTip$ program and get paid for good advice by other travellers.

If you are not logged in, or choose to make the drop box anonymously you can tell the community honestly what you seen without any concern. Please send images or other evidence to support your claims.

Drop image here or click to upload

     

     

    The MDtravelhealth channel is a source of travel health information for travellers, written by medical professionals.

    MDth Navigation

    Page is maintained by

    The MDtravelhealth channel relies on medical professionals from all over the world to maintain the Travel Health Information on these pages.

    Nobody :(
    Are you a Doctor, nurse or other Medical professional that feels they can update this page? Please login or sign up and select MDtravelhealth Channel in the Account Area.

    Topic Tags for Mexico

    Topic Tags are what bind the Red Planet Travel site together, and are very important.

    This place has been tagged:

    If you think those tags are not perfect, then please let the person responsible for this page know by dropping a note in the anonymous drop box below, or better yet sign up or login and join our community, once you've got enough reputation score you can edit them yourself!

    Got a Question?

    ?

    Ask any travel related question or help others with your experience and earn Reputation Score and become a valued member of our community.

    MDtravelhealth Medical Contributions

    Before you apply read about the Medical Professionals Roles on Red Planet Travel

    You need to be logged in and have applied to MDth channel to contribute to this page.

    Have something to Contribute?

    We are looking to grow the information on this site, if you have something to contribute to any page then we'd like to hear from you.

    What's more you can now earn money (paid direct via Paypal) for writing descriptions about places you know.

    You will need to tell other members about yourself and your relevant knowledge and experience about what you want to contribute about.

    Look below for some example page types, and types of people whose views on a place might be useful to know.

    Page Type: Hotel

    Are there any special benefits or adaptations that this Hotel or it's location has that you can comment on in your capacity as a Doctor

    Tell us your job, knowledge, experience..

    My Experience: Doctor

    This hotel has great CPR equipment and I can see the team are all trained

    If you are the owner/manager of any place, then you can, of course, take control of your page and add relevant information other visitors might want to know

    Related Pages

    Check out our page on Mexico for information on how to get there, accommodation, video and reviews.

    Medical Clinics

    Do you have any recent experiences of clinics here? Please search for them, use the drop box at the bottom of their page to send us comments - good and bad.

    Hotels near Mexico

    More hotels from our Partner Booking.com