Serbia travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Serbia, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Serbia: Belgrade, Novi Sad.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Tetanus up to date
- Hepatitis A
- Tick-borne encephalitis for hiking in the forests in summer
- Rabies for a long or rural stay
Emergency number
194 for an ambulance, 192 for police, 193 for fire
Care for visitors
Good but costly
The cities have good private clinics used to foreigners and cheap by European standards; the public hospitals are adequate and crowded. UK visitors get free emergency treatment under a reciprocal agreement, with a certificate from HMRC; everyone else pays, and insurance with evacuation cover is sensible.
Tap water in the cities is drinkable. Ticks in the forests from spring, and mosquitoes along the rivers in summer, which carry West Nile virus in some years. Winter air pollution in the cities is heavy on still days.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
