Ecuador - Health & Safety

Vaccinations
Recommended vaccinations
None
Medicines
Availability medicines
Medium

We suggest to bring always a small travel pharmacy and to stipulate a health insurance which covers medical expenditures, the eventual airplane emergency repatriation or transfer to another country.

Cautions
Diseases - infections
Dandy fever, Hiv - aids
Diseases - infections risks
Medium
Food and beverages

It is recommended not to drink running water or milk and local beverages. It is also advisable not to add ice. Unpasteurized milk must always be boiled and eating ice-creams could be dangerous. It is better to avoid eating raw food and, in general, to have meals in places where higienical conditions are not granted, suck as street kiosks.