5 Things to Know About CDC Yellow Book 2024

For over 50 years, CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel  has provided expert guidance on how to remain healthy and safe during international travel. Comprehensively revised, CDC Yellow Book 2024 includes both new and updated content. It compiles the US government's most current international travel health information, including pretravel vaccine recommendations; destination-specific health advice; and easy-to-reference maps, tables, charts, and checklists. As international travel resumes and rebounds to pre-pandemic levels, CDC Yellow Book 2024 remains a trusted resource for clinicians helping prepare their patients for travel outside the United States.

Here are five things to know about CDC Yellow Book 2024.

1. Updated travel-associated disease content, format, and vaccine tables

CDC Yellow Book 2024 covers travel-associated infections and diseases, organizing content into four parts: bacterial, viral (including COVID-19 and Mpox), parasitic, and fungal. Descriptions of each infection or disease begin with a summary reference table highlighting the relevant infectious agent(s), geographic endemicity, categories of travelers at greatest risk for exposure and infection, prevention methods, and sources of diagnostic support.

Vaccine tables, including vaccine names, dosing schedules, and links to CDC and US Food and Drug Administration websites for more information, provide clinicians with a concise and easily scannable guide to help ensure that their traveling patients are current and up to date with protection against vaccine-preventable