Purpose
Publication name: CDC Yellow Book
Edition: 2026
Top takeaway: The CDC Yellow Book covers a variety of travel medicine topics for healthcare professionals.
Yellow Book 2026 sections
- The Pre-Travel Consultation
- Perspectives: Travelers' Perception of Risk
- Vaccination and Immunoprophylaxis—General Principles
- Medication and Vaccine Interactions in Travel Medicine
- Yellow Fever Vaccine and Malaria Prevention Information, by Country
- Travelers' Diarrhea
- Food and Water Precautions for Travelers
- Water Disinfection for Travelers
- Travel Health Kits
- Last-Minute Travelers
- Mental Health in Travelers
- LGB+ Travelers
- Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches to Travel Wellness
- Travel Health Advice for Resource-Limited Travelers
- Travel Medicine Resources for Healthcare Professionals
- Sun Exposure in Travelers
- Heat and Cold Illness in Travelers
- Air Quality and Ionizing Radiation During Travel
- Scuba Diving: Decompression Illness and Other Dive-Related Injuries
- High-Altitude Travel and Altitude Illness
- Mosquitoes, Ticks, and Other Arthropods
- Zoonotic Exposures: Bites, Scratches, and Other Hazards
- Food Poisoning from Marine Toxins
- Safety and Security Overseas
- Injury and Death During Travel
- Poisonings, Envenomations, and Toxic Exposures During Travel
- Chikungunya
- Cholera
- COVID-19
- Dengue
- Hepatitis A
- Influenza
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria
- Measles (Rubeola)
- Meningococcal Disease
- Norovirus
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Rickettsial Diseases
- Schistosomiasis
- Tick-Borne Encephalitis
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
- Yellow Fever
- Zika
- Pre-Arrival Medical Screening and Interventions for Newly Arrived Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
- Post-Arrival Medical Screening of Newly Arrived Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants
- Visiting Friends and Relatives: VFR Travel
- Health Communication with Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities
- International Adoption
- Post-Travel Evaluation of the Ill Traveler
- Perspectives: Screening Asymptomatic Travelers
- Post-Travel Respiratory Infections
- Post-Travel Diarrhea
- Post-Travel Dermatologic Conditions
- Post-Travel Parasitic Disease Including Evaluation of Eosinophilia
- Post-Travel Evaluation to Rule Out Viral Special Pathogen Infection
Africa and the Middle East
- African Safaris and Climbing Expeditions
- Saudi Arabia: Hajj and Umrah Pilgrimages
- South Africa
- Egypt