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# Yellow Fever Requirements

## Yellow Fever Requirements

*Disclaimer: Please consult a medical professional and check latest requirements.

**Yellow Fever Vaccinations**  
We base our Yellow Fever requirement advice on the WHO countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and countries requiring yellow fever vaccination as well as the procedures implemented on the ground in each country.

**Kenya & Tanzania**  
Passengers arriving from Yellow Fever endemic countries (listed below) are required to present a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate.

While official advice states that yellow fever vaccinations are not required when travelling from Tanzania to Kenya, we can confirm that on occasion, travellers arriving to Kenya from Tanzania are checked for Yellow Fever vaccinations. We are in regular communication with Kenyan Port Health authorities and are working with them to receive clarification on this matter, however, for the time being our advice remains unchanged and we request that guests be vaccinated for Yellow Fever when travelling from Tanzania to Kenya.

**Rwanda**  
•    Passengers arriving from Yellow Fever endemic countries ( listed below) and any country with active Yellow Fever transmission outbreaks are required to present a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate.  
•    These passengers will be required to:  
-    Undergo temperature screening on arrival;  
-    Consent to self- report any symptoms that they may experience in the 6 days following arrival in Rwanda.  
-    Passengers with a temperature above 38. 5C will be granted entry into Rwanda but are required to isolate and undergo further investigation for Yellow Fever.

**Uganda**  
All passengers over the age of 1 year are required to present a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate in order to enter Uganda.

**Yellow Fever Endemic Countries**  
•    Angola, Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,  
Colombia, Cote d'IVoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South  
Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela

NB: Yellow Fever vaccinations are not required for travellers under the age of 1 year. Existing and new yellow fever vaccination certificates are now valid for life.  
NOTE: transit passengers ( more than 12 hours) in Tanzania require a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate. Transit passengers ( less than 12 hours) in Kenya or Tanzania shall not be checked for compliance with the certification.