Recommended Immunization for Adults

Recommended vaccinations

• Hepatitis A vaccine
• Japanese B Encephalitis, if you intend to stay for more than a month.
• Typhoid vaccine, this does not ensure 100% prevention and vaccine against Salmonella serotype paratyphi A is not available.
• Meningococcal vaccine
• Tetanus-Diphtheria vaccine
• Polio vaccine
• Measles-Mumps-Rubella
• Influenza especially if old with preexisting lung disease.
• Rabies vaccine if intending to stay over a month.
• Hepatitis B vaccine
• Pneumococcal vaccine recommended for travelers over 50 years of age.
• Varicella (chicken pox) if you have not had chicken pox as a child
• Diptheria-Pertusis-Tetanus vaccine is recommended if it has been omitted in your primary vaccination.

Vaccinations not recommended

Cholera vaccine is a low efficacy vaccine and foreigners are rarely affected by this disease.
• Yellow fever is not seen in Nepal.

Check your health insurance coverage for international benefits, or take a travel health insurance. If your country has an embassy in Katmandu , register with them before you trek