Tanzania travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Tanzania, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Tanzania: Serengeti & Ngorongoro, Zanzibar.
Required to enter
- Yellow fever certificate if arriving from a country where yellow fever is present — including via a layover of more than 12 hours in one
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Typhoid
- Tetanus up to date
- Malaria prophylaxis — Zanzibar is a genuine malaria area
- Rabies for longer stays
- Cholera for extended rural stays
Emergency number
112 or 115
Care for visitors
Evacuation likely
The weakest on this list. Zanzibar has clinics that handle minor problems and a private hospital in Stone Town, but anything serious means an evacuation flight to Dar es Salaam or Nairobi. Travel insurance with air-evacuation cover is genuinely essential here, not a formality.
Malaria is the real risk and prophylaxis is strongly advised — take it as prescribed and use repellent and nets. Do not drink the tap water. Watch the yellow-fever transit rule closely, because it catches people connecting through Nairobi or Addis.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
