CDC Yellow Book
Laos
Yellow Fever
- Requirements: Required if traveling from a country with risk of YF virus transmission. 1
- Recommendations: None
Malaria
- Areas with malaria: All, except none in the city of Vientiane.
- Drug resistance 3: Chloroquine and mefloquine.
- Malaria species: P. falciparum 65%, P. vivax 34%, P. malariae and P. ovale 1% combined.
- Recommended chemoprophylaxis: Along the Laos-Burma (Myanmar) border in the provinces of Bokeo and Louang Namtha and along the Laos-Thailand border in the province of Champasak and Saravan, along the Laos-Cambodia border, and along the Laos-Vietnam border: Atovaquone-proguanil, doxycycline, or tafenoquine. 4 All other areas with malaria: Atovaquone-proguanil, doxycycline, mefloquine, or tafenoquine. 4
Citation
Brunette, Gary W., editor. "Laos." CDC Yellow Book, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018. Relief Central, relief.unboundmedicine.com/relief/view/cdc-yellow-book/204315/all/Laos.
Laos. In: Brunette GWG, ed. CDC Yellow Book. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2018. https://relief.unboundmedicine.com/relief/view/cdc-yellow-book/204315/all/Laos. Accessed May 28, 2023.
Laos. (2018). In Brunette, G. W. (Ed.), CDC Yellow Book. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://relief.unboundmedicine.com/relief/view/cdc-yellow-book/204315/all/Laos
Laos [Internet]. In: Brunette GWG, editors. CDC Yellow Book. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2018. [cited 2023 May 28]. Available from: https://relief.unboundmedicine.com/relief/view/cdc-yellow-book/204315/all/Laos.
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