Sweden travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Sweden, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Sweden: Stockholm, Swedish Lapland.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Tetanus up to date
- Tick-borne encephalitis for a summer in forest or archipelago
Emergency number
112 for everything
Care for visitors
Excellent and cheap
Excellent and universal. The EHIC and GHIC are accepted; visitors pay a small patient fee like residents do. In Lapland the nearest hospital is Kiruna, and remote areas rely on helicopter evacuation.
Ticks in the summer, which carry TBE and Lyme in the south and along the coast. In the far north the cold is the whole health question: at -30°C the operators lend the suits for a reason. Mosquitoes in July in Lapland are extraordinary and not a joke.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
