[Vaccination for travelling]

Abstract

Travel activity is high among Danes and pretravel advice is important to prevent infections. This review concludes that recommendations for vaccines are based on the incidence and consequences of travel-related infections. Further, advice should be individualised based on the destination, duration and type of travel, expected future travel, comorbidity, whether the traveler belongs to a risk group (elderly, pregnant women and children), and knowledge of any current outbreaks of infectious diseases. Recently, new vaccines against dengue fever and chikungunya fever have been marketed and several are under development.